Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by panpanna on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:58AM (#24120956)

Mozilla management is getting paid top dollar, they are trying to act as they deserve it by starting and killing projects they clearly don't understand.

I would love to see a small dedicated team concentrated on the browser and led by manager who are not playing SV hotshots.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by MattGaiser on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:22AM (#24121245)

I can see a lot of the problems being those providing the funding to Mozilla or even how we praise people or judge them successful on here.

When is the last time a bug fix rose to the top of Hacker News?

When is the last time a cool new library or project rose to the top of Hacker News?

Virtually nobody would consider a fixed browser a success and unsurprisingly, nobody wants to do that kind of unrewarded work.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by saagarjha on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:30AM (#24121374)

> When is the last time a bug fix rose to the top of Hacker News?

10 months ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324273

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20874139

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857892

Another fix:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21995055

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by discardable_dan on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:59PM (#24124395)

So would I. The last time I used Firefox, they couldn't keep the entire browser from crashing because a single tab broke. They've got a long way to go to get Firefox up to its competition.

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