ehh this reads a bit like the hn comments complaining about sites that don’t work with js disabled
like what percent of firefox users do you think actually care about this?
Given the abysmal market share of Firefox today I think a large percentage of the remaining users do actually care.
No one care about this story at large. It's a pretty bad argument to make among the population that does care. Every HN user can leave Firefox and it'd still be running.
Fortunately, history has shown you don't need a majority of users decrying something to get noticed.
enough to move to zen after 20+ years
I'm sure it's a very small amount, but as well as making me personally happy*, (I feel) it would play into their image as the good guy.
"Do you want the most minimal stripped down version of FireFox? Well you can have it!"
*and after all, isn't that what's really important /s
If it's Mozilla signed then you could give it extra permissions so it still works the same, but then people who it offends can remove it.
Like how their tab containers system is a (not pre-installed) extension