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I am sad to see the layoffs at the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla plays an important role on the Internet. I may not always agree with the choices they make, but they still play an important role.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Vivaldi #browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #Computer

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the CEO is paid nearly $7M a year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mozilla has been a sinking ship for years now. Their mission statement mentions themselves as an AI company rather than a browser company and they slowly keep rolling out more ads and telemetry each release.

For now Librewolf and Thorium are better alternatives. I hope the ladybird browser takes off though since its the only real competition for Blink/WebKit engine

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@[email protected] If only Mozilla spent their billion dollars in assets actually developing Firefox and Thunderbird instead of AI and political advocacy. In the field of politics, persuing technological advancement first can do a lot more than asking permission later.

[–] Carighan 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Wrong Mozilla. This is about the foundation, not the corporation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

@Carighan The Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporations are so intertwined that they can be thought of as a single entity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How long until I have to switch to Netscape Navigator for a chromium alternative?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Netscape Navigator became Firefox hahaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Full circle it is then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

wtf why are there hashtags

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This post is federated from Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

oh shit thats cool!!! didnt know, mb bro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because it's a federated MBin magazine, look at how it looks on my instance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

oh shit thats cool!!! didnt know, mb bro

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] Mozilla plays important role and I hope they'll keep on with their mission, however I still don't understand what happens with tens of millions in revenue for the foundation and hundreds of millions for the corporation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] So am I, but I have really been expecting more layoffs than what most realize and expected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] Without Google FF would not exist... it plays a role but not by its own merit.