Imagine if Mozilla spent even one tenth the amount of effort on their own crappy product as they do hand-wringing about Chrome. We might have another viable web browser.
The quote the article is based around is discussing a new web API in the context of deciding what Mozilla thinks about it. If Mozilla isn't going to have any opinions on new web APIs, then what is even the point of Firefox? (Disclaimer, I work on Firefox but I know anything about specs.)