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.”
the advocacy is the reason why i continued to support mozilla/firefox.
this is horrible. :(
Ailing company? Cut it to pieces, that’ll probably fix it. I’d like the idea better if I could believe there’s a chance in hell they’d choose the right 30%.
Sorry, but no. The people making the cutting decisions are not going to cut their own jobs; and they are always part of the problem. It’s why companies only get more shitty over time.
That’s sad.
Kind of expected when Google was declared a monopoly in the courts.
RIP Mozilla Foundation 🪦
Not dead yet 🙏
Does anyone have a non chromium browser that still works on the modern internet they can suggest?
Open source and linux required for me but any suggestions are welcome.
I’ve been tooling around with palemoon but I’m definitely interested in any different architecture that’s not Mullvad.
I’m a total layman, so please be patient with me: what would happen to Firefox without Mozilla? Do forks have a chance to survive indefinitely?
As long as people work on forks, they survive. I think the more interesting question is about standardization and feature support in general: if FF and its forks are no longer a real force in the browser world, how will this shape what websites support and code for (i.e. making things slowly lose compatibility with firefox and its forks without major development).
I’ve daydreamed about the Linux foundation or sovereign tech
fundagency taking ownership of Firefox away from Mozilla.Maybe they could maintain a fork of it instead, I’m not sure. At this point I think it’s become a necessary measure. Firefox is quite far back in terms of security features that it’s actually becoming kind of silly. I still use it, carefully. I feel less inclined to recommend it to less savvy users in its current state.
They likely need a monetization model in order to pay developers.
