Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by craigsmansion on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:21PM (#24126126)

So this was because of the tabs?

"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – December 15th, 2004 – [..]The ad, coordinated by Spread Firefox, features the names of the thousands of people worldwide who contributed to the Mozilla Foundation’s fundraising campaign to support last month’s highly successful launch of the open source Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser.

Spread Firefox is the volunteer-run Mozilla advocacy site, with over 50,000 registered members, where community marketing activities are organized to raise awareness and to promote the adoption of Firefox."

(https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...)

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by Wolfenstein98k on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:13PM (#24127403)

That's how you hear about a free browser with tabs, not how you finally satisfy that deep, nagging yearn for an open web.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by petters on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @01:14PM (#24134273)

At least that's how I remember it. Tabs were a huge improvement to the web browsing experience.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by Shorel on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:26PM (#24137774)

Before Firefox, Opera was known as "The Tabbed Browser".

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