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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 8 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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throwaway123x2 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:02 UTC] No.22059260[source]▶
It's crazy how much FF's marketshare has dropped. It's such a great browser.
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1. shpeedy ◴[15 Jan 20 23:04 UTC] No.22059800[source]▶
Firefox eats memory. 4GB of memory is barely enough to run browser and show few tabs.
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2. cosmodisk ◴[15 Jan 20 23:11 UTC] No.22059861[source]▶
And this was one of the reasons I switched to Chrome many years ago.
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3. zozbot234 ◴[15 Jan 20 23:23 UTC] No.22059967[source]▶
No issues here on Linux. The latest ESR major release has even improved memory use slightly compared to the previous version.
4. big_chungus ◴[15 Jan 20 23:33 UTC] No.22060046[source]▶
On the windows box I'm currently typing, Firefox is eating less than two gigabytes with over seventy-five open tabs.
5. Axsuul ◴[15 Jan 20 23:43 UTC] No.22060120[source]▶
Doesn't Chrome have similar memory bloat?
6. corford ◴[16 Jan 20 01:21 UTC] No.22060775[source]▶
I have two FF windows open with a total of ~300 tabs and its currently consuming 2.1GB (Windows 10).
7. TheGrassyKnoll ◴[16 Jan 20 02:39 UTC] No.22061223[source]▶
Using Nightly on Linux (Bunsen Helium), 360 tabs, using 1.5 GB, but that will grow if I fire up dormant tabs. Starts going out to swap if I run it too long, then I kill it and update Nightly.
8. modo_mario ◴[16 Jan 20 12:40 UTC] No.22063926[source]▶
Chrome eats way more across the board in my experience