Do you really consider being able to provision your own profile a backdoor? I do it all the time. Do you think that Apple is a good example of what to do?

Having a single entity control what extensions you get to install is not what is best for the general public.

Personally, I think that Firefox should be the more flexible extensible alternative to Chrome. It should be to Chrome as Linux is to Windows.

They need to stop chasing the demographic that is going to hurt themselves.