C.<p>There is a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/phenomenon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phenomenon</span></a> where a person successful in one area decides to focus their <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/energies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energies</span></a> on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.</p><p>Michael Jordan, a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/basketball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basketball</span></a> wizard, decided to try to become a professional <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/baseball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>baseball</span></a> player. He (to use a technical term) <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/sucked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sucked</span></a> at it.</p><p>After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/album" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>album</span></a>, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/concert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concert</span></a> to watch Eddie van Halen play <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/keyboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keyboards</span></a>.</p><p>Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> had <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a>, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>users</span></a> by chasing <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/irrelevant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irrelevant</span></a> crap.</p><p>Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.<br>Or to become just another player in the VPN market.<br>Or to build a VR browser.<br>Or a reading list manager.<br>Or an IoT device manager.<br>Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.<br>Or authentication service.<br>Or geolocation service.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/junk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>junk</span></a>.<br>Voice recognition.<br>Journalism.<br>Built-in <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a>.<br>Search engine.</p><p>Van Halen continued to be <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/successful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>successful</span></a> despite Eddie's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/synthesizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synthesizer</span></a> obsession, not because of it.</p><p>If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/distractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>distractions</span></a>, not because of them.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/VanHalen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VanHalen</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Jump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jump</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/why" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>why</span></a></p>