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A comment on Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear?.

Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by numbsafari on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:07AM (#38085034)
Mozilla needs new leadership, one that is focused on building the userbase, rather than lining their own personal pockets and riding it into the ground. The chair of the board receives 3x the salaries of the rest of the executive leadership combined[1].

There are so many ways that Mozilla the organization could do more to promote not just a browser, but the open web writ large.

1: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990...

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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by jjordan on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:49AM (#38086733)
Maybe a true fork, with key players in the tech community could set things on the right path. Firefox exists in spite of, not because of, Mozilla's leadership.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by throwaway2340 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:28PM (#38089273)
CEO Mitchell Baker is even less involved with Firefox's direction than you imagine, which is probably a good thing.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by meiraleal on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:01PM (#38089755)
No, it is not when she gets paid millions of USD, money that could be spent making Firefox better, which it needs a lot.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by pseudalopex on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:50PM (#38091191)
Mozilla's assets increased $200 million in 2021. Mitchell Baker's salary is not limiting Firefox development.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by meiraleal on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:00PM (#38091306)
And their market share decreased 30%. Not limiting? She destroyed it.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by pseudalopex on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:11PM (#38092623)
Complain about Baker's performance all you want. You complained about her salary. Her salary is not limiting Firefox development.

Statcounter said Firefox's market share increased in 2021 surprisingly.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by UtopiaPunk on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:13PM (#38089942)
I'd say this is true of CEOs across almost all multi-million (or billion) dollar companies. I won't say CEOs aren't important, but they're not 100x the value of the median worker in a company.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by karmakaze on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:28PM (#38090174)
For a good CEO 100x seems fair, if we consider there's a 10x range within workers already.
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