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[Daffy Duck]

Just reading about this now and it's an absolutely massive loss to the dev community. #MozillaLifeBoat is also a thing on twitter.

AFAIK the teams that's been axed were:

• Firefox devtools
• Firefox incident/threat management team (?!)
• Servo
• MDN
• WebXR/Firefox Reality
• DevRel/Community (???)

Mozilla lays off 250 | TechCrunch

Mozilla today announced a major restructuring of its commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, that will see about 250 employees lose their jobs and the

techcrunch.com

 

[Cunth]

did they get woke and go broke?

 

[oagboghi2]

did they get woke and go broke?

It sounds like it's covid related, but honestly I don't understand how covid is apparently affecting them. Their biggest product is a web browser...

 

[The Cockatrice]

did they get woke and go broke?

Primary Password is replacing Master Password | Firefox Help

Primary Password is replacing Master Password. Learn more about why we are making this change.

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Take a guess.

 

[Riven326]

It's a shit browser now anyway.

 

[Drake]

I use firefox for 99.9% of browsing. I like it. I'm not happy about this news.

 

[TyphoonStruggle]

I like Mozilla philosophy in privacy and for developing the Rust language.

I do not like Mozilla going woke. Fucking idiots need to stick to the work because there’s a lot of good that Mozilla can do and the social justice bullshit takes away from that.

 

[teezzy]

Firefox or bust. Not happy to hear this. I'm sure they'll be fine.

 

[GloveSlap]

That sucks. Firefox and its plug ins are my go to when going to sketchy sites.

 

[isual]

their HQ is in san francisco; it costs a lot of money to pay these tech/non tech workers if productivity isn't there.

 

[Mistake]

Primary Password is replacing Master Password | Firefox Help

Primary Password is replacing Master Password. Learn more about why we are making this change.

support.mozilla.org

Take a guess.

Ah shit. I've been with them for over 10 years. If they decide to go more corporate/woke, I'm uninstalling

 

[Davey Cakes]

Hate to see it. Every day I have to count my blessings. I'm not the biggest fan of my job but at least I'm secure for now.

That said...Chrome for life!

 

[Fbh]

Hopefully they art still doing well overall.
I use firefox on both PC and Android.

 

[Bernkastel]

 

[Kenpachii]

Problem i have with them is that every single fucking time the browser updates before it starts. It's completely bloated with settings i don't care about.