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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by simias on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:23PM (#22059463)
Like who for instance? Basically only Blink, WebKit and Gecko are usable non-toy web engines these days, and they're all backed by big companies with deep pockets and many engineers.

Opera's long gone, now it's a chromium fork. Internet Explorer is gone, now MS uses a chromium fork. The hype new browsers like Brave and Vivaldi are just chromium under the hood.

It's like the difference between making a Linux distro and maintaining a full OS.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by saagarjha on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:26PM (#22059489)
I am responding specifically to the claim that Mozilla is short on resources because Google has a thousand people working on Chrome.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by summerlight on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:57PM (#22059755)
Google and Mozilla are competing in the browser market so it's pretty reasonable to compare their investments. I don't understand your reasoning here.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by saagarjha on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:00PM (#22060263)
My reasoning is that Google's investment is massive and just because they're throwing money and people at a problem doesn't make it necessary for everyone else to do so as well.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by jopsen on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:32AM (#22062155)
True, but when you say:

>Other browsers do just fine with significantly fewer engineers

It implies that you have any examples.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by saagarjha on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:48AM (#22062193)
Safari.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by jopsen on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:08PM (#22080591)
Fair point :)
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by celticmusic on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:47PM (#22061262)
I'm pretty sure Brave is FF.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by tssva on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:14PM (#22061371)
I'm more than pretty sure it isn't.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by celticmusic on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:40AM (#22064899)
oh you're right, not sure where I got the impression it was FF.