Firefox is the only completely free libre web browser that is also mainstream enough to be successful (no Chrome is not completely free software). So you're recommending that people give up their freedom to make a political point? That seems stupid.
Firefox is not free libre software. This is why it doesn't ship on free Gnu/Linux distributions, they prefer alternatives such as Iceweasel or Chromium instead (free libre versions of Firefox and Chrome that don't come with any proprietary logos, mpg4 codecs, pdf readers etc).
Iceweasel is not really much of a fork, just a s/Firefox/Iceweasel/g over every file in the project because Debian considers Mozilla's branding requirements to conflict with their free software guidelines (DFSG).
You do realize what free software is right? You're not giving him money by using Firefox, and you're completely free to use a forked version of it like Iceweasel if you don't want it to be counted as an install or whatever.
That depends on what you view as important. I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goals we should have as a society. Using a "free libre web browser" or any other free software is trivial in comparison.
As such, I believe that making a person who has contributed to fight against these goals the leader of your corporation is a terrible decision that will lead me to no longer recommend any of your products, even if that means recommending non-free software. You're welcome to disagree with that view, but I don't see how it's stupid.
Interestingly: that EFF link seems to have ignored the biggest LGBT/electronic freedom overlap IMHO - censorware.
The people who make censorware often automatically include anything LGBT-related as porn.
Here in the UK, O2 filters the Wikipedia articles on 'gay', 'lesbian' and 'transgender' under the "Lifestyles" category—the very term that homophobes use!
LGBT campaigning sites and safe sex sites have been filtered on corporate and state-owned wifi connections as pornography. And the UK government's plan to try and introduce on-by-default internet filtering will lead to LGBT teenagers not able to look up safe sex information online when said information gets miscategorised by the censorware manufacturers as 'porn'.
Not to mention, the censorware that automatically alerts the 'concerned' parents running it as to what little Jimmy is doing on the Internet - that's going to potentially out kids to their parents and put them at risk of being made homeless by their fundamentalist nutjob parents.
As a closeted gay teenager, I'm really fucking glad to have grown up in an era where the internet for me was uncensored precisely because having access to a resource that had information - and, yes, porn - that showed being gay as normal, healthy and okay was a refreshing, sanity-inducing change from the rest of society that didn't.
Yes but there's less of a guarantee that people will continue working on it should google decide to abandon it (which isn't impossible). I have nothing against Chromium though, but it's not very convenient for people stuck on Windows based OSes for example.
Chromium is the foundation of Chrome, Chrome for Android and ChromeOS, multi-billions markets for Google. It is less likely that Chromium will stop receiving funding from Google than Firefox from Mozilla.
Not as stupid as the people recommending that OTHER people give up their freedom to marry to make a political point that nobody should have the right to marry.
