Mozilla just can’t stop taking L’s.
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If this is really just hitting the advocacy division and not the Firefox programmers then it doesn’t matter much. It may even be good if they get rid of the people responsible for some of Mozilla’s more controversial and out-of-scope political activism. Hopefully they will focus more on their core products and the tech.
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First, I would like to remind people that behind these layoffs that “don’t matter much” are real people who have lost their job. That matters.
Second, I think the first round of layoffs is where the Browser and Privacy folks were hit.
This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of employees who work on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.
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How about their CEO taking pay cuts, huh? No? Advocacy can still be useful. At least leave one person to do it.
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The amount of L’s that Mozilla took in 2024 is record-breaking.
@Lukas amount of what? what is L?
@HauntSanctuary that’d be nice 
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On a related note, this video gives some insight into Mozilla’s situation, and to some extent, their direction under the new CEO.
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W is win and L’s are losses
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@phnx good, informative vid. Thank you for opening my eyes to things I wasnt even aware of.
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Source? Even if that’s true it surely accounted for a negligible percentage of profits.
You’re welcome to have your opinion but it seems out of place here. They’re advocating for privacy friendly products which is particularly important with such sensitive information.
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Perhaps Does Your Sex Toy Use Encryption?? I don’t think they “sell” them though
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Let’s face it, Mozilla sucks.
Google doesn’t make this information public, but does anyone think that the Chrome development team has a half-billion dollar yearly budget? I bet it doesn’t, and it makes a much better product with probably a lot less money.
We might have a better chance of Tor moving to a chromium-based solution than of Mozilla fixing Firefox bugs and creating a decent, safe browser with proper isolation.
Madaidan’s site is censored in r/Firefox because it’s “outdated” but the Bugzilla issues he links are still open, some of them for almost a decade.
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There’s no single chromium based browser I prefer to use over Firefox. And maybe only Vivaldi has so many useful features, that it’s worth using. At work we only have Chrome & Edge allowed and it’s PITA for me to use them every day
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They probably have a much bigger budget if anything…
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Because Chromium is actually doing something and improving with huge wins like these: https://xcancel.com/parityzero/status/1818346978281222400#m
Couldn’t say the same about Firefox, especially when it comes to security.
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You’re talking UI.
Meanwhile Firefox doesn’t have site process isolation, gpu process isolation, now cookie encryption as @Lukas pointed out, and is pwn2own silver medalist after Samsung Galaxies (yes, this is hyperbole, I have no idea)