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"With Firefox succumbing this week..." Firefox succumbed to what? Genuinely curious, i had not heard this.
by greyfox 6y ago
"With Firefox succumbing this week..."
Firefox succumbed to what? Genuinely curious, i had not heard this.
- pdmccormick 6y agoThere were a large number of layoffs at Mozilla, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336 .
- dmitryminkovsky 6y agoAnd strategic re-orientation as I understood it.
- Ygg2 6y agoSame way you strategically deprive someone from food and they reorient to a coffin user. Explanation: Google undermined FireFox, both through ads, then through a series of incompatibilities. And they did the same to Edge, which is using Chromium.
- noble_pleb 6y agoThat's exactly what any CEO or "Downsizing Consultant" would say. That may be an OK situation for a corporate company, but for a non-profit foundation like Mozilla, its unhealthy and rings some disaster bells.
- outworlder 6y agoGiven the caliber of the talent that was let go, this re-orientation sounds more like a lobotomy.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoToo many overpaid people who had little interest in building a web browser.