hello flatlanderjenn, unfortunately brendan made the personal decision to step down from his role among all this ongoing frenzy and mischaracterization of him as a person and the mozilla community, in order to avert any further damage to mozilla and its [https://www.mozilla.org/mission/ mission to advance the open web]. for some more detail on the subject, please refer to <br>https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2 <br>http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/ since this forum is a place to provide technical support for mozilla products and not a general place for discussing policies, i'm also going to close this thread. should you have any concerns on the subject, please take them to the mozilla governance mailing list located at https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance.