Dunno how well it works, but a pretty common strategy for tech products is to pitch to technical people and hope that "the masses" tend to adapt whatever their

Dunno how well it works, but a pretty common strategy for tech products is to pitch to technical people and hope that "the masses" tend to adapt whatever their more technically savy friends are doing. Plus Mozilla is a non-profit, so they're probably more interested in their reputation specifically amongst HN readers and the like than they would be if they were a commercial company just trying to sell as many widgets as possible.