Fine, I'm on a rant here, so here we go.

"We'll just fork it" is privileged mindset. It means you think you can gather enough clout and like minded people to put up a bunch of unplanned work and time and passion to make a whole new project despite the old one still working "well enough".

Now you can take the same logic to electoral politics. "If you don't like it, move, or win elections".

Minorities know they're going to get clobbered in most of those situations if it's only done half-assed. So you pick your battles and go into it with a plan more concrete than hitting the fork button on GitHub and making a logo.

What SPECIFICALLY to do about Mozilla? Idk. I don't know the people or personalities or org structures involved. But "hey everyone, switch to aquaferret" or whatever the fork of the day is isn't a sustainable solution.

@JessTheUnstill hmmm. It can also happen that the fork gets so popular that almost all users switch to it, leaving the original project without a meaningful user base, see for example OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice.

Another possibility that has happened: the original project resolves its leadership issues, and the fork gets re-merged. As I understood, this happened in OpenWRT vs. LEDE.

But I don't think one of those will happen to Firefox, based on Mozilla's current power in leadership.