It's time to sell the company to Elon and retire.

Just be remembered for Facebook and amihotornot, as opposed to a dystopic VR system with Nintendo 64 graphics, and retire with your reputation as intact as it will ever be.

It's just a shittier version of Theranos.

FTFY.

This was an economic choice. Icons are multi-lingual, meaning manufacturers didn't have to create dashboards with knobs labeled in dozens of different languages.

I think you've brushed really close to the real issue here.

The question isn't "Why is Firefox losing users?" The real question is "Why does anyone masochistically keep using Firefox when the devs are so arrogantly and willfully contemptuous of their core clientele?" The answer is singular: Firefox is not spyware. The Mozilla team knows they can do anything they want as long as they don't start sending our browsing habits elsewhere. We're literally a captive audience because we absolutely refuse to use a browser that feeds our data to a corporation, we demand privacy- and security-focused plugins (like NoScript), we need it to be open source so we can verify it's not violating our trust, and there just aren't any good browser options left.

What makes it particularly galling is that we know they ignore their own data. Look at Pocket. How many clients use it? Let's be generous and say 5%. (Alternate answer: the inverse of how many consider it spyware.) How many clients want them to leave the UI alone? Let's be meager and say 30-50%. They must know how much we hate what they do and yet they still prioritize the stupidest new ideas in favor of listening to their users.

That said, I bailed on Firefox back when the Waterfox fork came along. For years the add-ons were the only place to restore functionality critical for safe browsing that Mozilla had inexplicably cut, such as the status bar. But Mozilla's gonna Moz, and so they killed off the old XPI add-on interface; in classic Mozilla fashion they built the new add-on interface such that it was impossible to re-add those functions with new plugins. Giving up the classic add-ons was never a good option, so when Waterfox came out it was "jump ship!" So far, Alex has done a great job of merging in patches from Firefox that address security vulnerabilities, but that's a lot of work and I don't know how long he can keep it up.

Isn't it ironic that the forces of capitalism are used to censor in favor of a communist party?

If someone needs a charge they will go to the store/restaurant/bar that has a charging station. While they are they they will go into the store/restaurant/bar and perhaps buy something. The cost and maintenance of what is essentially a fancy electrical outlet will be minimal. Also, if someone is considering going to a store/restaurant/bar that has charging discounts for purchases, where do you think they are going to go?

Every single business with a parking lot will have a charging station because it is a source of revenue.

If only we had the infrastructure to transport electricity to population centers and to road-sides across the country. Way harder than transporting and storing a liquid fuel source.

I would call you pedantic, but you would only take that statement seriously if you were literally a schoolmaster.

Agreed. If it was a one-time event that reduced the population, if there was no major difference in the ecosystem the population would have rebounded. With marine mammals, you now had both a competitor for resources and in some cases, a new predator that was eating you.

Just wait until they make flying landmines that can consume organic matter for energy and procreate.

Land mines are very bad. However, flying land mines that seek you out and throw themselves at you are much worse.

Ask Karen what she thinks about naming a social/political/health issue after a person's name.

All I need to know is how long the brain can last, frack the rest of the body.