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> I don't understand why the default behavior isn't to isolate every website from every other website? Why is least privacy the default?

Default privacy settings are tough to manage.

Some people want privacy, and will accept broken websites if it keeps their data and online movement private.

Other people just want their usual websites to work, don't understand or care to think about privacy, and if some random content farm looks busted in Firefox, will just switch to another browser.

Aside from picking a sensible default, Firefox also offers to educate users where it makes sense. For example, when you open a new private browsing window in Firefox, the tracking protection section includes a "See how it works" button that takes you to a tour-style walkthrough of how tracking protection works.

I dunno, it seems like the learning process of putting together a series of unsuccessful promo packages might be the exact training you need to become "senior".

If the (good) work you did wasn't reflected in the metrics, then you need to figure out how to change the metrics, or change what you work on.

There's nothing inherently scummy or "political" about influencing the collective direction: identify problems, come up with good ideas for solutions and how to measure (partial) success, and talk it over with your team and manager around the time goals are being set. People are biased, distracted, and fallible, but generally recognize good ideas when they are communicated clearly.

If you're not good at documenting your successes, reflect on what is and isn't getting documented, and find ways to set yourself up for success the next time. Talk to people who've gotten the promotion you want, and figure out what you've missed.

Learning to independently identify problems, devise solutions, measure success, document success, and advocate for your ideas and yourself are essential skills for the human organizational / business part of writing code for a living. This is true whether you work on your own, at a startup, or at a bigco like Google.

Good luck! :-)

It sounds like you were away from coding for a really long time (10 years!), then you got back into it, picking an area you didn't know much about, expected it to be easy, maybe didn't put in the time outside of work...this approach wouldn't work for anyone, no matter their age.

Here's a manager-y question for you: how could you have done things differently when you went back to being an IC, to have had a better transition? Maybe doing more prep work before you left the manager track? Maybe going back to C++ instead, or an area that was closer to what you used to work on? Maybe doing open source work in that new java/python target area, to get experience, build a portfolio, and be sure you liked it, before you bet your livelihood and reputation on it?

Want to get some production experience with react? Tons of webdev projects are using it at Mozilla. Come on over and find yourself a good first bug :-)

Test Pilot isn't happening at the cost of stability and performance improvements. It's a complementary program that helps us ship better features through data-driven iteration.

I hear your concerns, though. The platform and desktop teams are doing tons of great work on improving stability and performance--you might want to give Firefox another try sometime. If you do, maybe try out some Test Pilot experiments while you're at it, and let us know what you think.

Yeah, the site is templated client-side using Ampersand (though lmorchard keeps threatening to rewrite it in React as a weekend project). Should work fine with tracking disabled, but won't work at all without JS.