Posted on 04/04/2014 2:47:49 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
If Mozilla was hoping to avoid controversy by edging out former CEO Brendan Eich, the company has most certainly failed. The graph below comes from the feedback page on their site. This chart goes back to when the comment system was adopted, and the highest number of "sad" comments is today, by a factor of about two. The second highest number came yesterday.
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For a flavor of the complaints, click through or just have a look:
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I don't know of Google or Apple taking such action against one of their top officials that may hold similar views as Eich, or that may have made contributions as did Eich.
It is the fascist nature of this action that is so insulting. FF has been removed from all my computers and other devices.
To the homosexual community.......I will tolerate you, but will not promote your life style and will not celebrate your lifestyle.
You cannot reasonably expect more.
They will never be satisfied. They don’t want tolerance, that’s so 70s. They DEMAND to be celebrated.
Is anyone investigating the IRS Gaystapo for leaking donor information to the homosexuals in CA that revealed the rather minor contribution made years ago by Mr. Eich? Someone should be arrested for that outrageous criminal act by the IRS.
Cuts both ways, of course. Ask the Susan G. Komen foundation about that.
Exactly! From the New Yorker . . .
"Eich’s problem wasn’t that he took a political stance: Amazon.com’s C.E.O., Jeff Bezos, has weighed in on gay marriage, too, by donating more than $2.5 million in support of it. The problem was that Eich’s stance was unacceptable in Silicon Valley, a region of the business world where social liberalism is close to a universal ideology.
Try Opera.
I tried Chrome, but it installed unwanted toolbars, and took over my desktop. Took me an hour to get rid of it and back to normal.
I used ol’ Netscape v2-v9, and liked it very much. Then, I found Opera in 2009, and have used it since.
Thanks for this article. The sad faces and displeased comments are continuing to come in every few seconds. Mine was added and Firefox uninstalled.
I’ll be linking this article elsewhere in the AM. If I was on FB I’d certainly put it there, but I’ve gone off and don’t miss it much at all. A total time-waster, Facebook, but that’s for another thread.
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The Komen Foundation kerfuffle was different though, because of the public verbal intimidation leveled at them by the US Democrat elected officials. I’ll never forget that.
Dick Cheney was Pro Gay Marriage years before Obama or Biden were.
Perhaps Mozilla should hire Cheney to run the Company.
Thanks I’ll look into Opera.
Anyone know of a conservative web browser?
I’ve been very happy with Comodo Dragon as a browser. Supposed to be more secure and private than others. I also use duckduckgo instead of google.
We need to keep at these people, they need more sads.
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