Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird....

I was using Mozilla before it was cool. It's got everything I need, or needed at the time, and it's been a regular friend on an irregular internet.

Then all these really cool things come out for Firefox. Then Firefox with Google Toolbar shows up. Then all sorts of little other tidbits which, for some idiotic reason, only work with Firefox. Firefox and Thunderbird combined made up Mozilla at one point.

Now, I have three choices.

(1) Completely give up an integrated solution that meets my basic needs simply so I can stay current.

(2) Use Firefox and all the new extensions (which the developers, for some purely annoying reason, don't think Mozilla needs), and retain Mozilla in the background for email and everything else...

(3) Get rid of Mozilla altogether and use Thunderbird for email, so I *no* *longer* *have* *an* *integrated* *solution*.

Number (3) seems like the most sensible, but I have to tell the folks working on Firefox that it's ONLY because of the new extensions that I would do this, and it makes me angry that because these extensions do not work with Mozilla that I am being forced to - which is one of the same problems I have with Microsoft. Mozilla is supposed to be the full featured whizzbang, and there's no way to contact someone about this, so... my gripe is public.

Firefox is fine. Thunderbird is fine. But my question is: What does the Mozilla Foundation have against Mozilla? The disparity has become too large to ignore. Why not just rename the thing the 'FireFox Foundation' and quit playing this ruse?