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Re:Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage by tivert on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:04PM (#36088909)
> I read a conspiracy that Google has paid off Mozilla management to specifically sabotage the browser development. Actions like this make it hard to dispute the moves that frequently seem deliberately anti-user.

IIRC, didn't Mozilla lay off some R&D team that was doing some promising work on modernizing and improving its browser engine?

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Re:Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage by slondr on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:27PM (#36089711)
That "promising work" was "inventing the Rust programming language," and, yes.
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Re:Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage by mlry on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:54AM (#36094862)
I think parent is refering to the servo team.
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Re:Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:49PM (#36089916)
My annoyance is more the half-brained projects which Mozilla pursues. Then surprised Pikachu when they have to cut budgets and Firefox is impacted.
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