General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem

Also, I don't understand the issue with "being associated with Firefox." People's main complaint about Mozilla and Firefox these days is the "AI" stuff

Then you should look at Firefox's plummeting market share numbers from 2009 to 2026, they are abysmal. And 99% of that loss of users was before Mozilla's recent AI pivot. So the problem with being associated with another project whose popularity has been plummeting like a rock for 17 straight year is that the force of gravity will pull your own project down with it. Did you read the earlier Balrog analogy? People will associate your browser (nice, lovely Pale Moon) with a browser they strongly dislike (Firefox), and they won't give Pale Moon a second thought.