Brendan Eich, former head of Mozilla. Credit: Mozilla Foundation via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Posted on 04/04/2014 5:46:43 PM PDT by NYer
.- Critics slammed Web browser Firefox's announcement that CEO Brendan Eich resigned in wake of controversy surrounding his support of traditional marriage, calling the move intolerant of free speech.
Andrew Sullivan – founding editor of political blog “The Dish” and writer of the first national cover-story in favor of the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in 1989 – strongly criticized Eich's resignation in a April 3 post.
“Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks?” he wrote, adding that “The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.”
“If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out,” Sullivan noted.
“If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”
As co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich was appointed as the company's Chief Executive Officer just last month, but has stepped down after his 2008 personal donation of $1,000 to support California’s Proposition 8 – which opposed the legalization of gay “marriage” – came under fire by some within the LGBT community.
According to USA Today, online dating site OKCupid even urged a boycott of the search engine, calling on Firefox users to change their browser in protest to Eich's appointment.
The newspaper also reports that last week Eich attempted to dispel the concerns erupting over the web and social media by writing in a March 26 blog post that “I can only ask for your support to have the time to 'show, not tell;' and in the meantime, express my sorrow at having caused pain.”
“I am committed,” he wrote, “to ensuring that Mozilla is, and will remain, a place that includes and supports everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, economic status or religion.”
However, the public apology was not enough to satisfy those criticizing Eich's stance in support of traditional marriage, and many are claiming that his move to resign was unfair and pushed by same-sex “marriage” advocates.
In a statement Thursday, Mozilla's executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker insisted that Eich “made this decision for Mozilla and our community.”
The Washington Examiner reflected in an April 3 piece, however, that Eich “resigned under pressure after gay rights activists demanded that he step down or recant his support of traditional marriage laws.”
Political scholar and author Ryan T. Anderson also decried the decision in an April 3 article published in The Foundry, noting that “the outrageous treatment of Eich is the result of one private, personal campaign contribution to support marriage as a male-female union.”
It is, he observed, “a view affirmed at the time by President Barack Obama, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, and countless other prominent officials. After all, Prop 8 passed with the support of 7 million California voters.”
Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in November 2008 supporting the traditional definition of marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling.
Ultimately the proposition was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010, although the ruling was not official confirmed until June 26, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed proponents' appeals based on lack of legal standing.
Opera’s bookmark import function seems to be AWOL.
I haven’t got that far heh. I will look into it.
I didn’t have that many bookmarks I guess, if I have time to be on the computer, I’m typically on FR lol.
Go to opera.com and download a pristine version direct from the source. I have installed it on many machines to date and never had a problem with imbedded programs.
Thanks - I’ll try that.
I downloaded and installed Opera yesterday, but I couldn’t find the bookmarks/favorites. Maybe I’m completely blind but couldn’t figure out where they were! I uninstalled it.
Ah, the intolerant cries for tolerance.
Hypocrites.
OMG just downloaded Opera and it is nice! Much better than IE and Chrome.
Glad you like it. Don’t forget to try some addons -I highly recommend Ghostery and Adblocker, at a minimum. Tip: on Ghostery, only go with the default settings if you do not care about not being able to access things such as Disqus, otherwise use it on a page-by-page setup.
It’s under the small [Opera] tab on the upper left. You can set all your preferences from there, including whether or not you want the Menubar displayed.
Oh, and don’t forget to go to the Settings - Preferences, and set your Cookies to “Delete upon exiting”. Unless you like to have Cookies kept, that is.
I’m sorry, but it’s just not there. No way to display the menu bar, bookmarks, nothing. I can’t use that. I’ll try Safari for now.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-manager/?display=en
is that the add-on that I should be adding?
Yeah I already saved my bookmarks from firefox I have a file on my desktop ready to go once I Get this done..is that the one I should install?
Also..as far as making the fonts bigger..is there a way after I make it bigger for each page that it just saves it like that instead of me having to change it every time it loads
That’s the addon I’m using and I haven’t had any issues with it.
As for font size... I haven’t changed anything there, but go to Settings and select Websites. Under Display it looks like you can change the minimum font size used.
Good luck. I’m happy enough with Opera!
I have Opera open now..and I installed that plugin, but when I go and add the bookmark file from firefox nothing happens I dont see anything
Also..u know how there is a drop down menu on the place where you put in the URL so that you can see other URL’s you have used, I dont see that
Over on the top right side of my browser, there’s a bookmark icon. Click that and below the heading, there’s a option for “Manage and Import.” Clicking that should prompt you to select the html file you saved from Firefox.
As for the URL field, it should populate with more addresses you’ve visited as you use the browser more? I’m not having an issue with visited web sites not dropping down.....
Yeah its not working..when it loads the file it says 0 bookmarks saved..its a json file from firefox..maybe thats the problem, its not an html file..how do I make it an html file so that it will import?
Also..yeah Im not seeing anything dropping down as far as other web sites Ive been to..guess I have a lot to learn about this, so used to firefox..I just see an option, add to speeddial and add to stash and thats it
K I figured it out, about the importing files thing..just went to Chrome and created an HTML file and did it..so that part works, I just dont see any scroll down menu option for my other sites that I have been on
Morality is necessary to understand what is inferior, what is equal, and what is superior to each of us.
Dear Utilizer,
Thanks for that extra tip. I will try that, after I try Avant Browser; Sleipnir; Cyberfox; and Waterfox.
There is one thing, though. Since I have never paid any tribute money to Mozilla, or any of the other-than-Microsoft stuff I do use, I do not see that I am “supporting-the-queers”.
My daddy told me a long time ago, that, if you give money to something, you become part of that something, whether you agree or not with what they do with your given money.
These companies put forth their products for free. Then, they ASK you to use PayPal to ‘support’ them. On software websites, the ones I do use, mark their products as freeware. If they thought their product was so hot, why did they not make it “shareware”, with a time limit, before you had to buy the code?
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