Mozilla just replaced an open app ecosystem (incl. side loading) with a centralized opt-in nine entry app gallery. Maybe there's a time to call them interested

Mozilla just replaced an open app ecosystem (incl. side loading) with a centralized opt-in nine entry app gallery. Maybe there's a time to call them interested in an open web but this specific release is a big step away from their former principles. A browser should be an user agent. Their principles are probably, just like in any other company, primarily marketing and we should evaluate them just the same as we do other companies. Every time Google centralizes an ecosystem we do call that out. It's usually a power grab. We should do the same in cases in which Mozilla does it. I think that the open extension ecosystem on desktop Firefox is save as long as Chrome on desktop still has somewhat open extension support. On Android there is no chrome extensions, hence there's no competitive advantage for Mozilla to keep them - which probably made it all costs and no gains. ... which is probably the moment they're out of the window, if principles are no concern. I think it's a dilemma. If Mozilla can't do it Firefox deserves a better organizational structure that enables the product to continue to work as a gateway to user autonomy and software freedom on increasingly closed platforms like Android.