Dear lord, I certainly wouldn't want to be some kind of shadowy open source egregore making people unsafe offline... I don't think there's some kind of squad of Stallman level open source types who would Batman you away. That's a ridiculous idea and I'm sorry I made you think that!

The only time anything close to busting kneecaps came during an internshipc I had at Firefox in the bay area years ago after a nearby homeless man declaring that he "loved firefox because firefox "doesn't murder the homelss". (You learn all sorts of things when you speak to the users!)

Me being me, I joking asked "Does Chrome murder the homeless?" (The Chrome team had recently moved into the same office building and begun poaching people while throwing pity parties on Twitter if no one showed up at their office because they made a stupid cake.)

Anyways, long story short there were some very fucked up Chrometerns that summer, and apparently there was a literal rumble when one of them instinctively ran towards Sutter Gutter when someone tried to beat them up for no reason. So it's just after last call, bunch of firefox shirts stumble out and... well I'm pretty sure we're past the statue of limitations, but a chrometern got his ass kicked, badly, and transferred down to Mountain View because they were very suddenly aware that homeless people are... people. They talk. And when you try to beat one of them up and get run off... now you're suddenly aware there's quite a lot of homelessness in San Francisco and maybe you were walking home safely because up until that point, you hadn't been an asshole to people.

Anyways, no, there is no Firefox gang, just a collection of people who happen to use a particular web browser. (And no, I don't work for Firefox)