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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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%.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the advocacy is the reason why i continued to support mozilla/firefox.

this is horrible. :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sort of hoping the folks they laid off weren't actually the advocacy folks, and they're just additionally doing the restructure and moving the advocacy folks into the other departments.

But yeah, I don't fucking know what to think of it. I do have a base-level of trust that they'd make a sensible decision in some dimension. But I'd really like to know more where they're headed now...

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

that would 100% be the right move but i worry

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RIP Mozilla Foundation 🪦

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

Not dead yet 🙏

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

That's sad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

None that will continue to exist, if Mozilla falls apart...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

WebKit wise, I think otter releases have stalled, epiphany and konquerer are plausible options though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Is that the place where they fire people while increasing the CEO salary or is this something else, the Mozilla setup is so confusing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kind of expected when Google was declared a monopoly in the courts.

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

Google has the deal with the Mozilla Corporation, whereas this is the Mozilla Foundation. It should have relatively little influence, if any...

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

Good catch - you're right.