Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by gadders on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:18AM (#24565591)

I realise some people didn't agree with his politics, but I wonder what the trajectory of the company would have been under Brendan Eich.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:45AM (#24565828)

I think the big problem is that Mozilla/FireFox receiving money from Google served essentially as a bribe that allowed Google to pull a bunch of anti-competitive behavior that cost FF marketshare.

If not for that we could have easily seen a repeat of Netscape vs Microsoft, but it is hard to consciously decide to bite the hand that feeds you, especially when it is connected to the proverbial 800 lbs gorilla.

I suspect FF would have lost marketshare in any "under Eich" scenario too, maybe not as fast and maybe he would have re-focused the company earlier.

But that's all water under the bridge we are where we are today.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by djsumdog on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:57AM (#24568517)

The first year of Chrome's release, I absolutely hated it, not because of the browser itself, but because it felt like a shot to the gut of Firefox and open source development in general.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by cultus on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:29AM (#24566805)

How could you know that? He was CEO for 2 weeks.

He took concrete actions to damage LGBT people. That's not just an opinion.

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