I wonder how things may have played out had Brendan Eich still been at the reins
(Serious comment, not some challenge to test how quickly Godwin's law can be invoked)
(Serious comment, not some challenge to test how quickly Godwin's law can be invoked)
I suspect adblocking and anti tracking features might have been higher on the list.
I think things would worked out better for everybody if he had stayed as the CTO, but that's the power of hindsight. That and it was under his watch that they didn't invest into mobile early enough (I'm thinking of Minimo here, which would have been for Windows CE — not helpful in itself, but it would have helped slim down Gecko, probably).