> What is woke about that company to you in particular?

My main issue is them getting involved in them supporting censorship, deplatforming wrong-thinkers, and more nonsense. Plenty of articles about this here: https://reclaimthenet.org/?s=mozilla

> What do "woke politics" have to do with Mozilla's failure?

1) The more time and effort they spend focusing on non-technical issues is time away from the one thing that matters.

2) Also, the more they appear to be favoring certain political views, the fewer conservatives, libertarians, centrists, etc may want to use them. When a company starts favoring one political side over another and loses its appearance of non-bias, especially when it concerns information flow, it's hard to trust them again. DuckDuckGo made the same fatal flaw of trying to be explicit about bias and though there's some noise in the stats, it looks like their search results have peaked as well. Without as many users, you can't progress nearly as quickly.

> Their political leanings are basically unchanged dating back to before Chrome even existed.

I'm not sure, but I can't remember them supporting the censorship stuff until a bit more recently. Even when they were pretty gay friendly and whatever, they never supported censorship as far as I can remember.

Although I'd probably be described as "far right" according to some opinions, I still use Firefox for the sites where IE won't work, because the alternative is Chrome. I loathe all their politics, but still further hate the fact that all browsers seem to be going down the same (Google-lead) path.

When it comes to computing, the enemy isn't really "the other side" politically. It's Big Tech. I agree that the politics are a distraction, and that might actually be the intended effect --- to distract away from the monopoly that's forming. Both sides should realise and unite against that.