Let me pay for Firefox

I already posted a hot take [0], but this one is even hotter: there's no strategy that Mozilla could have employed to make any of their products popular.

I will substantiate that assertion with a simple argument in the form of a question: what were the most popular internet browsers in each period of history, for each platform, and why?

IE was popular because it came with Windows. Safari is popular because it is both Mac and iOS default browser. Chrome became popular because Google convinced you that IE was slow because it was IE, not because your PC was slow already.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549224

Firefox should have appealed to the developer/hacker demographic. Instead they've made every effort to alienate those demographics in trying to appeal to the general public. They were never going to be able to compete against Google's influence, but they could have established a stronghold with the power-user communities that would grow slowly over time as they converted their friends.

For some reason I still cannot load unpacked extensions for more than 24hrs. I cannot load unsigned extensions unless i download a special build of firefox. Firefox doesn't support apple scripting. A stock install of firefox has more sponsored bloatware than Chrome. Great way to treat the power users.