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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: 0.001s | 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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pier25 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:35 UTC] No.22059567[source]▶
Hmm I don't know. I switched to FF 4 months ago and while the engine and dev tools are great, it's simply not as polished as the competition.

For example just look at the alert popups[0], or the non native contextual menus, or the video pop icon. The UI is full of little quirks like that. The tab bar is by far the ugliest one of all current browsers, at least on macOS.

It also misses important features such as multilingual spell checking. For people writing in multiple languages it's a real PITA. I know this functionality can be added with an extension but it slows down FF too much IMO.

[0] https://imgur.com/lODjWSm

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flukus ◴[15 Jan 20 23:53 UTC] No.22060207[source]▶
> The tab bar is by far the ugliest one of all current browsers, at least on macOS.

It's horrible on all platforms ;) . The way tabs are handled is by far my biggest complaint, you can't fit as many tabs in as with chrome and since they "upgraded" the extension system the vertical tab extensions don't work well (can't remove top tab panel).

I wish they'd just make a native UI for each platform, their cross platform one has always been a train wreck but it's especially bad since they dropped XUL.

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1. modo_mario ◴[16 Jan 20 12:35 UTC] No.22063897{3}[source]▶
Wait you can't scroll trough tabs on macOS? I have hundreds open and can read em perfectly fine
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2. yoasif_ ◴[17 Jan 20 01:34 UTC] No.22071036[source]▶
You can.