As a further observation on this, Robert O'Callahan has a blog post [1] explaining Mozilla's stance on (not) implementing bad-for-the-web features; as an exampl

As a further observation on this, Robert O'Callahan has a blog post [1] explaining Mozilla's stance on (not) implementing bad-for-the-web features; as an example to show this stance is long-lived, he mentions that engineers at Netscape/Mozilla implemented (in 1999) ActiveX support for Gecko, but kept it disabled by default on purpose despite a possible market share impact. [1] http://robert.ocallahan.org/2010/01/activex-all-over-again_25.html http://robert.ocallahan.org/2010/01/activex-all-over-again_2...