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Mozilla registers swell of negative feedback following Eich ouster
The Daily Caller ^ | 4-5-2014 | Chuck Ross

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: brendaneich; california; eich; firefox; gay; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; lofan; mozilla; poeticjustice; prop8; tyranny
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To: JaguarXKE

Sweet!
Which browser did you decide on?


41 posted on 04/05/2014 9:26:54 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: greene66
I see the country lurching towards true dictatorship. The populace will enable it.

Possibly yes, but I would think they would need a major door to door gun grab first.

42 posted on 04/05/2014 9:32:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: familyop

I recently switched from Firefox, which I’ve liked and used for many years, to Pale Moon browser.

So far - so good.


43 posted on 04/05/2014 9:55:54 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Tainan
"I recently switched from Firefox, which I’ve liked and used for many years, to Pale Moon browser.

So far - so good.
"

Another one to have a look at. Thanks!


44 posted on 04/05/2014 10:04:34 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Tainan

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.


45 posted on 04/06/2014 12:20:19 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: servo1969

You better believe gays were very powerful in ye olde Sodom and Gomorrah. Before it got destroyed for many reasons with perversions being featured


46 posted on 04/06/2014 12:28:39 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: OneWingedShark

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?


47 posted on 04/06/2014 12:31:06 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
firefag; that's good..
cuts to yhe quick.

48 posted on 04/06/2014 12:36:20 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: RandallFlagg

I’m just back to using Safari (I have a iMac). I also have Opera installed but have not really tried it out much.


49 posted on 04/06/2014 1:21:59 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: OneWingedShark; familyop

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.


50 posted on 04/06/2014 2:32:56 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: dennisw
FireFag

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)!

51 posted on 04/06/2014 2:44:04 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: servo1969

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.


52 posted on 04/06/2014 3:07:42 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Starve the RINOs: Not one dollar, not one vote.)
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To: fuzzylogic

extremist position

Actually our position is in the majority; look at all the referendums that courts have voided.


53 posted on 04/06/2014 8:20:03 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: servo1969

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’....


54 posted on 04/06/2014 8:24:56 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Dog Shit by Mail" could be sold to 7 million Americans IF IRS muscle was behind the venture.)
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To: VRWC For Truth
Mozilla is dead.

It at least has AIDS. Switched today to Pale Moon. Next, Thunderbird to probably Outlook (grr).

55 posted on 04/06/2014 3:01:31 PM PDT by polymuser
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To: Tainan
"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.
"

It appears to be a good choice. That's what I'd probably use then, if I had nearby grid power. But with PV solar here and a low-power laptop, I'm trying Midori for the time being and will switch, if something else looks better. Pale Moon might be a good one to try here, after we add some modules and batteries.


56 posted on 04/06/2014 3:35:05 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: servo1969
User complaints are unimportant.

90% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google

The ONLY thing that matters is keeping gay-friendly Google happy, and this uproar does not affect Google.

57 posted on 04/06/2014 3:37:58 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: All

destroying firefox sets the right example to prevent the same again.

how about we expose those that protested?


58 posted on 04/07/2014 3:39:33 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: PapaBear3625

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.


59 posted on 04/07/2014 3:40:52 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Google doesn’t pay a dividend, does it?


60 posted on 04/07/2014 3:47:32 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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