Unfortunately many including yourself are assuming he must have been fired or forced out all due to his personal choice to leave for now versus staying in some capacity like going back to CTO or another role as the board members encouraged him to.

Please see these links to help clear your misconceptions up.

• https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/
• http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/

Hello, you might have read some things about this topic that aren't correct, because sadly the press has in general done a very poor job at fact-checking this story. Since you care deeply enough to send this message instead of silently turning your back on us, you might be interested in some attempts to clear up a lot of this misinformation:

Here is a short collection of facts about what happened: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/ and here's a longer version written by an employee in a blog post: https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2

Brendan wasn't fired or pressured to resign from within Mozilla - we would like nothing better than to have Brendan back. In fact, we didn't want him to leave in the first place. However it was his personal decision to resign among all this ongoing frenzy, threats and mischaracterization of him as a person and the Mozilla community coming from third-parties, in order for the constant bombardment to end and to avert any further damage to Mozilla and its mission that he helped build for so many years.