Firefox is still very much a technically excellent browser. My plea is simply to stop taking poison pills from the very companies they should be fighting agains

Firefox is still very much a technically excellent browser. My plea is simply to stop taking poison pills from the very companies they should be fighting against in standards body discussions. I'd argue Firefox is "behind" in both _marketshare_ and _features_ largely _because_ said features are steamrolled through community governance bodies by the likes of Google, etc. Mozilla is at the table for these discussions but their hands are tied. Mozilla's continued existence in recent history has relied on money from their primary competitor to stay in operation. Some have argued that doing seemingly unrelated projects like the one announced today is an effort to buy their freedom as it were. I'm arguing that's a distraction and that something closer to Linux or wiki foundation model would allow them to concentrate their efforts where it makes the most sense, as their current governance model is inherently based on a conflict of interest. Opera was also a technically excellent browser, and we've seen that that alone is not enough to justify its existence in the long term.