@firefox part 3 Similarly ecosia as the default browser of firefox with a clear message on startup that ecosia plants trees when you use its search engine and giving a option to use google in the first page itself to whoever wants to use google so that people don’t change the browser itself.
My 2¢: I say let Mozilla stick to their core purpose (develop Gecko and Firefox) and leave the “virtue signaling” to other companies that feel the need to do that. Firefox is already marketed as the most privacy-oriented browser available. Given what you read every day, users are apparently leaving Firefox in droves, partly because Mozilla’s attention is focused elsewhere in less-than-technological subjects. And remember: until 2007 Mozilla used to develop in-house Thunderbird, a still-excellent email app. Why would they take on an email service a la GMail now?
I thought thunderbird still is a mozilla project to this day? I use it and it still comes up as mozilla thunderbird on installers and the like. I definitely agree with your virtue signalling point though, I like that they don’t shove it in your face every time you open the app, it just does its job.