It's a good article, but in my experience explaining this stuff over and over again in HN and other fora, people don't actually want to know. They have their narrative and they're sticking to it.
That's exactly how reading Mozilla apologetics comes across. I'd say pre-registration could help sift out the bullshit from the well-founded predictions, but there's seemingly no way to get Firefoxers to deviate from their narrative, and the proof would come at a time that's too late to act on, anyway.
For all the retrospectives that exist about Jobs's ability to captivate, Mozilla folks have a self-perpetuating echo chamber/reality distortion field of their own—except the only thing it's good for is a thousand self-inflicted wounds and a smug sense of persecution. Terrible combo.
'I never, never want to write C++.'
Seriously, I can't say how much I want not to write C or C++. Life is too short to use unsafe languages.
Seriously, though, I want the software I run to obey me, not someone else: not Microsoft, not Apple, not some government on the other side of the world — and not Mozilla. I want to be able to modify its functionality in a straightforward manner, in a reasonably-sane garbage-collected language (so, not C, not C++, not Java and not JavaScript).
I would like to be able to add pull data from sites I visit and plumb it through the rest of my system using something like Plan 9's plumber. I don't want a browser which says, 'sorry, I won't trust you to choose the extensions you like.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
There are bindings for several languages, no need to write C++.