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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 2 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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. disconnected ◴[16 Jan 20 01:11 UTC] No.22060719[source]▶
The decline of Firefox is largely due to Mozilla's incompetence.

If you look at their own statistics [1], you will notice that (worldwide) usage started declining after the introduction of Quantum (November 2017), and dropped substantially after the April 2019 addons outage.

This would suggest, IMHO, that Firefox loses market share when beloved features - customization, addons - stop working or got worse.

This is unsurprising to anyone who has been using Firefox for a long time: the primary differentiation factor of Firefox has always been customization. Messing with that would always be a risky proposition. Nuking the whole ecosystem entirely and starting over in the space of a few of months was simply idiotic. Disabling everyone's addon's because of an admin screw up was just the icing on the fucking cake.

[1] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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2. roca ◴[16 Jan 20 02:36 UTC] No.22061208[source]▶
Keeping XUL extensions would have meant continuing to sacrifice performance, security and stability. That could never have worked long-term.