> (And they're [Mozilla] not doing as good a job with security+privacy, really, either, compared to properly configured Chromium.) Anecdotally, I feel that the

> (And they're [Mozilla] not doing as good a job with security+privacy, really, either, compared to properly configured Chromium.) Anecdotally, I feel that the quickly growing number of websites that complain that Firefox is an "ad blocker" with an unconfigured, out of the box default install seems to imply Mozilla is doing a great job with respect to security+privacy. > Mozilla isn't leading the way on web standards anymore. All the way back to the IE3-6 era, Mozilla has never been about "leading" web standards. IE3-6 lead web standards. Mozilla's role in web standard has almost always largely been about curtailing the excesses of whoever is currently leading, and keeping standards fair, safe, "quality" over quantity. It's not Mozilla's job to keep up with ~IE6~ Chromium, it's their job to keep Google from spinning web standards out of control. To keep Chromium from being IE6 2.0. To keep Google from just defining all the standards in ways that make Google happy but maybe aren't great long term for the health/safety of the web. It's Mozilla's job to slow Chromium down, and the fact that people are complaining "Firefox isn't keeping up" with Chrome's non-standards and in general that they are losing that battle in mainstream browser usage isn't at all great for the web. (The last time something like this happened was IE6. Whether or not Chromium is the "New IE6" will take a while to play out, but we're deep into the IE6 playbook at this point and anyone not seeing parallels either doesn't remember the early years of IE6 well or has too high of an opinion of Google.)