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Title: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Nintex on August 11, 2020, 03:05:07 PM: Mozilla has changed their focus and let go a quarter of their workforce.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/ (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/)

From what I've gathered, they've axed the XR(VR+Mixed Reality) and Servo teams.
The Servo team is basically the team behind the rendering engine of Fire Fox so I suspect Fire Fox updates will cease in the near future.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: team filler on August 11, 2020, 03:06:14 PM: :fbm
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: BIONIC on August 11, 2020, 03:21:35 PM: First Zwarte, now Firefox. The hits just keep on coming :tocry
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: El Babua on August 11, 2020, 03:26:45 PM: Thanks Mozilla for killing Internet Explorer.

Still prefer FF for a few reasons over Chrome. But even I migrated over for the most part. Now if I can import my NoScript settings over, that would be it.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Kara on August 11, 2020, 03:26:52 PM: It's not like they're strapped for cash, but what a world it would be if Internet Explorer received the same antitrust oversight that Chrome did.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 11, 2020, 03:37:09 PM: Lesszilla
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Nintex on August 11, 2020, 03:42:28 PM: Quote from: riotous on August 11, 2020, 03:26:48 PM
You haven't gathered anything you fucking moron.

https://twitter.com/MortimerGoro/status/1293240479098773504 (https://twitter.com/MortimerGoro/status/1293240479098773504)

https://twitter.com/lastontheboat/status/1293239489863745537 (https://twitter.com/lastontheboat/status/1293239489863745537)
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 11, 2020, 03:47:17 PM: I'm so grateful that nintex is here to do my thinking for me so I don't have to

:rejoice :playa
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: BIONIC on August 11, 2020, 03:50:43 PM: Quote from: riotous on August 11, 2020, 03:29:00 PM
https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Message-to-Employees-Change-in-Difficult-Times.pdf

That's the actual message sent to employees, and their actual plans for Firefox are included, in case anyone was actually interested in knowing things.

Quote
Focusing Firefox On Users
In order to refocus the Firefox organization on core browser growth through differentiated user
experiences, we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal
tooling, and platform feature development, and transitioning adjacent security/privacy products
to our New Products and Operations team.

You know who else was actually interested in knowing things? Hitler.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: thisismyusername on August 11, 2020, 03:51:08 PM: I guess their VPN hasn't been successful?
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 11, 2020, 04:00:44 PM: The VPN is less than 2 weeks old.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: thisismyusername on August 11, 2020, 04:11:44 PM: Well damn, faster than Googie killing shit after a year.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 11, 2020, 04:15:35 PM: Thanks firefox

You can join netscape now

:'(
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 11, 2020, 04:16:06 PM: The VPN lives on as per the pdf Riotous posted. Just saying there's no way it could have earned them enough money to keep those 250 people employed.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 11, 2020, 04:17:26 PM: Quote from: Cerveza mas fina on August 11, 2020, 04:15:35 PM
Thanks firefox

You can join netscape now

:'(
It lives, chill.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Maybe some years down the line it'll end up getting a brain transplant to become another Chrome skin, in which case break out the funeral wine.
[close]
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 11, 2020, 04:19:50 PM: Quote from: riotous on August 11, 2020, 04:16:11 PM
Quote from: Cerveza mas fina on August 11, 2020, 04:15:35 PM
Thanks firefox

You can join netscape now

:'(

They are continuing Firefox development.. it's their core product...

I havent used firefox outside of work in a decade though
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 11, 2020, 04:24:40 PM: Quote from: Cerveza mas fina on August 11, 2020, 04:19:50 PM
I havent used firefox outside of work in a decade though
(https://hugelolcdn.com/i/88762.jpg)
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: thisismyusername on August 11, 2020, 04:27:09 PM: That's not a Firefox, that's a Red Fox. :doge
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 11, 2020, 04:49:41 PM: I know, but I was angling for a crying Firefox logo. This was the first result, so I went with that instead.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Tuckers Law on August 11, 2020, 04:56:47 PM: I’ve nothing to add other than I still prefer Firefox over chrome.

Also, riotous takes the dissemination of Firefox information very fucking seriously.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: benjipwns on August 11, 2020, 05:02:12 PM: so these Fire Fox problems are what led to the Halo Infinite delay huh
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: BIONIC on August 11, 2020, 05:03:52 PM: Quote from: benjipwns on August 11, 2020, 05:02:12 PM
so these Fire Fox problems are what led to the Halo Infinite delay huh

Somebody get Jim Sterling on the phone to make a hard hitting expose stat.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: team filler on August 11, 2020, 05:04:07 PM: gaylo indefinite ;)
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 11, 2020, 05:14:06 PM: its the internet in 2020 baby, facts don't mean shit anymore :rash
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: EchoRin on August 11, 2020, 05:16:56 PM: Chrome doesn't even allow extensions on android.

Of course I use Firefox as my default browser (Chrome is my second or used for specific sites}
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: who is ted danson? on August 11, 2020, 05:33:30 PM: I (begrudgingly) used firefox back in the day, but I always figured it was a furry browser (open source, animal name, animal logo, yep its furrshit). I was glad when chrome came
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: thisismyusername on August 11, 2020, 05:46:32 PM: Quote from: who is ted danson? on August 11, 2020, 05:33:30 PM
I (begrudgingly) used firefox back in the day, but I always figured it was a furry browser (open source, animal name, animal logo, yep its furrshit). I was glad when chrome came

(https://i.imgur.com/WSxFg9F.jpg)
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: zomgee on August 11, 2020, 09:37:21 PM: Quote from: thisismyusername on August 11, 2020, 04:27:09 PM
That's not a Firefox, that's a Red Fox. :doge

:foxx
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: kingv on August 12, 2020, 01:57:29 AM: I used edge :lucas :aweshum
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: team filler on August 12, 2020, 04:51:23 PM: (https://i.imgur.com/dlCR9N7.png) :thinking
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: EightBitNate on August 12, 2020, 05:04:14 PM: Surprised they’re not looking to sell to one of tech giants.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 12, 2020, 07:03:02 PM: Who would buy them?
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: team filler on August 12, 2020, 07:19:23 PM: facebook :doge
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: EightBitNate on August 12, 2020, 07:25:19 PM: Amazon?
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 12, 2020, 10:30:13 PM: Nintendo?
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 13, 2020, 08:28:00 AM: Facebook is mostly mobile (that's where most ad impressions come from, too). The app serves them well enough.

Dunno what Amazon would want with a browser.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: bork on August 13, 2020, 09:01:58 AM: Quote from: Rufus on August 13, 2020, 08:28:00 AM
Dunno what Amazon would want with a browser.

Don't they already have one with Silk?
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Rufus on August 13, 2020, 03:32:31 PM: Ah, didn't know that. It's a custom Chromium build for their Fire devices.

Good enough, I guess.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 13, 2020, 04:50:07 PM: Cutting 25% of your workforce? Many companies don't survive that.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Tasty on February 28, 2021, 04:44:37 PM: (https://i.imgur.com/e8OMhrE.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoYP2mEJDJs
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Coax on February 28, 2021, 10:47:57 PM: Quote from: Tasty on February 28, 2021, 04:44:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/e8OMhrE.jpg)

Mozilla's actual response to this

(https://i.imgur.com/OCFMrm9.png)
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 03, 2021, 10:45:11 AM: I think when this thread was first posted I went through like five cycles of starting a post trying to explain what Servo actually was, deciding it wasn't worth taking the bait, deleting the post, only to wake up at 2 AM in a cold sweat feeling like I just had to start another post, etc.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Don Rumata on March 03, 2021, 11:25:26 AM: If they close FireFox, i'm abandoning the Internet.
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: MMaRsu on March 03, 2021, 12:33:29 PM: Lmao at shadowbanned riputous
Title: Re: Mozilla changes focus 250 employees laid off
Post by: Nintex on March 03, 2021, 12:35:54 PM: The memory of their souls live on in my posts :trumps

Also I have to admit they were right, Fire Fox was not cancelled (yet)