I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a little bit more than a media war.

.
Last I checked, Russia was invading eastern Ukraine.

I suspect that may bode poorly for a FB office in Russia to properly handle Ukrainian Facebook business.

Whose brilliant idea was that?

.
It now appears that Windows has taken on a life of its own, and is now roaming the countryside, harassing the villagers.

Where is Dr. Frankenstein when you really need him?

The marketshare numbers for Firefox disagree with you. Firefox is losing users.

.
So you have a decision to make.

You can continue to blame those who say Mozilla has chosen the wrong path.

Or you can try to change the direction Mozilla has chosen with the goal of regaining the users that Firefox has lost.

imo, Mozilla is no longer a free software group. They sold out long ago. And now they are exploiting their users, just like other for-profit corporations.

The recent version of Firefox did not remove the complications, it removed the ability to customize.

.
If Mozilla wants to have a simple, dumbed-down interface for Firefox as the default, I am absolutely OK with that PROVIDED that Mozilla retains the ability in Firefox to customize the interface to the complexity level that I want.

That is the problem with Mozilla's current thinking. Mozilla has removed the ability to customize Firefox. The "Classic Theme Restorer" is a bug-fest. It's the equivalent of putting a pile of shit out in a fly farm.

if Mozilla strategically intends to have plug-ins or add-ons provide essential functionality of a browser, then Mozilla needs to implement a quality assurance certification program for those plug-ins and add-ons. The current "works for me" ratings systems fails miserably in this regard.

For starters, I do not 'hate" software. It's not an emotional thing for me. I look at software as something that helps me do what I need and/or want to do.

.
To that end, Firefox's Australis is a degradation of Firefox. It has significantly reduced my ability to customize the user interface of Firefox to suit my needs.

Mozilla's attempt to find a "one size fits all operating systems" approach to Firefox has resulted in a significant dumbing down of the user interface.

I do not want Firefox to look the same across all the OS's I use. I want Firefox to exploit each OS to the greatest extent while staying within the conventions of that OS. That's where Mozilla went astray....

.
Mozilla is in a war with its users, and the users are losing. Firefox's declining marketshare is evidence that the users are losing.

I am more concerned about attitude towards users than who controls the browser.

.
Mozilla,over the past year or so, has shown complete disdain for the desires of its users. And the result of that disdain is a declining marketshare.

How long will it be before Mozilla is little more than a Netscape-like footnote in the history of the web?

How long will it be before Mozilla decides that the users no longer need the ability to turn off the sponsored tiles?