This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • snowcrushed573@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Everytime I see comments regarding Mozilla’'s financials,I have the same effing question: How does a company like brave or opera maintain their browser ?? AFAIK both don’t have the level of community backing that Mozilla does nor do they have any (again AFAIK) agreement with a company like google for default search engine placement

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      those are just rebranded chrome(ium). all browsers except firefox and safari are rebranded chromium or firefox. edit: there are some other projects but none are mature.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Alongside what the other guy said, Opera definitely does have search engine deals, idk about brave since they launched their own. But brave has their own private advertising system

      • snowcrushed573@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Fair enough. Didn’t think that maintaining the engine is what Mozilla spends majority of it’s Firefox budget on

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      Not necessarily. If they’re low on cash then cutting unnecessary costs is not unreasonable. What is Mozilla’s core goal? Perhaps the “advocacy” and “global programs” divisions weren’t all that relevant to it, and so their funding is better put elsewhere.

      • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        Let’s wait and see how this funding won’t be talked about ever again and later on the CEO coincidentally gets yet another raise

  • Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    Getting rid of the advocacy part. That’s…not good.

    So what does that mean in layman’s terms? They’re not going to have as much of a voice to sway heads about things like open internet, the flaws of copyright, the problems with privacy and surveillance.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Let’s just separate GOOG from Chrome / Chromium and Google Search completely. So that the direction of the most used browser, most used search engine and the biggest advertiser don’t circle jerk each other.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t see why you’d choose Edge. And you don’t need a VM to run it in Linux - there are Linux packages readily available.

  • anticurrent@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Mozilla keeps digging Firefox’s grave, and seeing how other opensource projects like Gimp struggle to even keep up with their own release schedule and very slow development rate. I fear we will be left with only chrome to use.