To Firefox or Not to Firefox

I’m presented with somewhat of a dilemma.  I use Firefox because it renders Arial Rounded MT thicker than Safari or Chrome and spaces scaled up fonts on the page much better than Internet Explorer, thus making my personal visual internet experience much easier.  And then there’s the controversy over the Mozilla CEO.  

The recent storm swirling around Mozilla comes after the revelation that CEO Brendan Eich contributed large sums of money to support California’s 2011 Prop 8 to ban gay marriage.  Many in the tech community, including Hampton Catlin, a former developer for an app for the Firefox phone and current CTO of Moonweb and CEO of Rarebit, who is gay, and the gay friendly dating site OkCupid, have called for users to boycott Firefox.

I’m wrestling with the obvious advantages for my eyesight that Firefox currently offers versus a political point of view I find abhorrent.  But, then I ask myself what economic impact would some blind dude in Seattle not using a browser actually make on a company the size of Mozilla?  I mean, I don’t have a clue what the political proclivities of the CEO for Pete’s Coffee are and yet I’m sitting here enjoying my second cup today.  But I do make conscious decisions not to eat at Chic-Fil-A for instance.

I’d love to hear thoughts from the readers.  Let me know what you would do.