And when executive salaries were rising and user share dropping, revenues were way up. From $120 million in 2010 to $520 million in 2016. Of course some of that will go to the people in charge.
Most of their non-Firefox pet projects have been failures.
Implying she joined in December 2019 is seriously underplaying her role before then. [1]
Her accomplishments as CEO are tanking growth, a slew of failed projects, massive layoffs and the expansion of obnoxious full-page banner ads baked into the browser.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Mozilla_Foundat...
Except yknow, 2016 where the majority of their money came from Yahoo. Because that money is buying something of value, Google is just the company that most wants the product.
>Implying she joined in December 2019 is seriously underplaying her role before then.
She became provisional CEO in 2019, like I said. And I'd have to guess she was officially hired as nobody better wanted the job for the salary.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman
The list goes on of conservative woman CEOs, but you probably should do some personal introspection on why the concept of such a person makes you upset.
Firefox development itself has been rudderless and lethargic for a long time. WebKit introduced backdrop filters 7 years ago and Firefox is still working on implementing them. [1]
I don't think that's a particularly high standard. The CEO is a failure and the board is incompetent for not firing her years ago.
[1] https://webkit.org/blog/3632/introducing-backdrop-filters/