In December 2011 or thereabouts, Mozilla did a deal with Google where Google gave Mozilla $1 billion to be the default search engine for Firefox.

The deal was astonishing.

Because it showed that either Mozilla was being run by zealots, or they didn't realize that Google was out to make them irrelevant.

At that time, IIRC, Google was 3 years in with Chrome, their replacement for Firefox. And Mozilla knew it!

Yet, they did the ostrich thing, and went in bed with Google.

In the intervening years, Microsoft released Microsoft Edge, which, has gone nowhere.

A few months ago, Microsoft did the  previously unfathomable deed: they  opted to use Google's Chromium – instead of Chakra – as theJavaScript engine underlying their browsers  going forward.

Incredulously, Mozilla had a problem with it!

Are you effin' kiddin' me?

Microsoft did the right thing, I believe.

The following screengrabs were my very prescient thoughts from 2011 on Mozilla's stupidity.

(I miss the MetroTwit Twitter app.)