A nostalgic eulogy for the old Mozilla, written in 2016. The author reflects on Firefox's golden era as a fast, customizable, hacker-friendly browser that championed the open web. The piece argues that Mozilla effectively 'died' in 2011 when it began chasing Chrome's rapid versioning scheme, and that the company which replaced it has betrayed Mozilla's original spirit by shipping non-free add-ons, removing the classic add-on API, pursuing failed projects like Firefox OS and IoT, and making questionable deals like defaulting to Yahoo search.
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