Posted on 04/05/2014 5:51:20 PM PDT by servo1969
Mozilla, the company that operates the web browser Firefox, experienced its highest level of negative customer feedback the day after its embattled co-founder Brendan Eich resigned as CEO after gay rights activists objected to his appointment.
On Thursday, Mozilla forced Eich to resign just two weeks after hiring him. At issue was a $1,000 donation Eich gave in 2008 in support of California’s Proposition 8, a successful ballot initiative which banned gay marriage.
The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit well with many customers — many of them pelted Mozilla’s website with a surge of negative feedback.
On Friday, 94 percent of the sentiments registered on the site were “sad,” while six percent were “happy.” That translates to about 7,000 negative responses, compared to nearly 500 positive responses.
“Your abject and pathetic condemnation of an individual’s right to hold and support their own view on the world is simply unbelievable,” read one user’s feedback at the Mozilla site.
Eich’s hiring last month generated outrage from Mozilla contributors, called Mozillians, over Eich’s past support of Prop 8, which passed in California with 52 percent of the vote.
Outsiders protested Eich’s hiring as well, and likely served as the tipping point for his removal.
The matchmaking website OkCupid posted a letter which greeted Firefox users informing them about Eich’s political contribution. It urged them to find another web browser to search for dates.
Many conservatives expressed their outrage over the forced resignation. Talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh tackled the topic on his show on Friday. Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer called for a “counter-boycott” of the tech company. And many conservative Twitter users urged other conservatives to remove Firefox from their computers under the hashtag #UninstallFirefox.
Mozilla declined to respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Sweet!
Which browser did you decide on?
Possibly yes, but I would think they would need a major door to door gun grab first.
I recently switched from Firefox, which I’ve liked and used for many years, to Pale Moon browser.
So far - so good.
I actually just did that myself a while back — I was looking for a 64-bit browser and Pale Moon looked like the best choice.
You better believe gays were very powerful in ye olde Sodom and Gomorrah. Before it got destroyed for many reasons with perversions being featured
64-bit browser and Pale Moon>>>>>>
I tried 64 bit WaterFox. It chewed up too much memory going by what I saw in task manager. So I went back to Firefox. Or is it called FireFag these days?
I’m just back to using Safari (I have a iMac). I also have Opera installed but have not really tried it out much.
Upfront I’ll tell ya’s, I liked Firefox. I had it kitted out with all the right (for me) add-ons and stuff.
What it looks like is that all of those additional things integrate pretty seamless into the Pale Moon browser.
Kinds weird, but in a good way.
LOL!
Paging Representatives Armey and Fag Frank! Please pick up the nearest Courtesy Phone and be conferenced together (telephony being the only hygienic way to speak with Barney)!
It’s worse than that. The positive comments didn’t increase above any other day. Only the negatives spiked from about 1,000 to 7,000.
extremist position
Actually our position is in the majority; look at all the referendums that courts have voided.
The new liberal definition of ‘tolerance’ is “agree with us or we’ll get you fired from your job”.
Can we assume the next ‘higher’ level of ‘tolerance’ will be that they’ll put us in gas chambers if we dare to disagree with them?
Bullies... thugs... goons... all the new things we associate with being ‘liberal’....
It at least has AIDS. Switched today to Pale Moon. Next, Thunderbird to probably Outlook (grr).
The ONLY thing that matters is keeping gay-friendly Google happy, and this uproar does not affect Google.
destroying firefox sets the right example to prevent the same again.
how about we expose those that protested?
killing firefox sets the right example.
Googles is there to make money and stockholders want their dividents and hight share returns.
a dead firefox is bad for google.
Google doesn’t pay a dividend, does it?
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