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Running into The Mozilla Museum[1] has reminded me of why I fell in love with
Netscape and Mozilla so long ago. I wasn't a Mac user yet, but I was on
Windows 98 (pre-SE), and when I first tried Netscape, it was probably my
favorite application on my system (outside of games, of course). I'd been using
AOL's client for everything up to that point, but when I found out I could just
use another browser, the sites I went to started looking a lot better. CSS
would render better, fonts looked better, and it was much snappier even on 56K 
dial-up.

Of course, then I look at the jumbled mess that Mozilla has become since Google
started screwing them over[2], and the whole Brendan Eich debacle[3] that 
actually made me more afraid of the LGBTQ+ community than the transphobic 
people out there[4]. Thunderbird has gone into a maintanece loop, SeaMonkey has
been stalled since Mozilla's push to become more Chrome-like with Quantum, XUL
is now a community-supported thing, they killed Firefox OS and disappointed 
many fans (including me)... They're literally two things now: the Firefox 
company, and web activists. That's kinda all they really do now, despite the
fact they don't wanna be known for just Firefox.

It's why I'm so happy the likes of PaleMoon, Waterfox, Iceweasel, and Basilisk
are around, continuing where Firefox diverged into its mess of strangeness. We
need more competition in the browser space, especially now that Edge and Opera
are Blink-based (bleh). Safari/WebKit is nice, but it's only one competitor,
and Mozilla's struggling enough as it is.

Plus, I still like XUL.

(On another note, I miss LUGRadio. Thinking of XUL just reminded me of their
"Where the F**k is XUL?" sketch[5].)

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[1]: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/
[2]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/
[3]: https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-brendan-eich-comes-under-fire-from-mozilla-employees-upon-ceo-appointment/
[4]: I am trans*, which makes such it even more difficult for me. I also have
     opinions on the whole debacle which I will save you from here.
[5]: http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/84 Timestamp 31:00