As someone coming off a decade of working there, I can tell you with some confidence that “you should use Firefox despite Mozilla’s leadership” is far more true and has been true far longer than you realize.
But you should also understand that original market-share vs ceo salary meme is a creation of Brendan Eich, presumably born of a grudge, and notably elided his tenure as CTO, during which the worst of that decline happened.
You should still use Firefox though.
I’ll be honest, my faith in MDN and Mozilla was already on the floor. Think this might be the final nail in the coffin for me https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208
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Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.
Nah, because their whole thing was always about minimal profits and reinvesting in growth.
It’s a culture society needs more of, but it’s definitely vulnerable in the short-term. Hoping they come back with a vengeance.
Their parent company @mozilla turned out to be the only responsible company of the internet giants.
They still do work to keep the internet open and safe.
Do you use the Web PKI? Anything written in Rust? Wasm? Do you like Let's Encrypt?
Do you support net neutrality? Are you opposed to Oracle's position in the Google Vs Oracle APIs debate? Then even if you never touch Firefox, you have things to be thankful to Mozilla for.
Mozilla's work on Firefox is a drop in the ocean of the impact Mozilla has. Advocacy, policy, research, developer tooling, standards work.
I don't know what your specific issues with Mozilla's current behaviour are (happy to discuss) by I respectfully disagree. We need them.
"Approximately 250" of the best folks I've worked with are looking for work today.
While it hurts to see friends lose their jobs, the growing fear of a web wholly controlled by big tech is more uncomfortable.
The world needs Mozilla. *You* need Mozilla. Use it or lose it.