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Firefox Fail: Layoffs Kill Mozilla's Push Beyond the Browser (cnet.com)
So much for Mozilla's quest to bring Firefox to new and different places. From a report on CNET: The nonprofit organization told employees Thursday that it is eliminating the team tasked with bringing Firefox to connected devices. The cuts affect about 50 people. Ari Jaaksi, the senior vice president in charge of the effort, is leaving, and Bertrand Neveux, director of the group's software, has told coworkers he will depart too. Mozilla had about 1,000 employees at the end of 2016. The layoffs greatly curtail the nonprofit organization's ability to make Firefox relevant again. Once a dominant choice for internet browsing, it has long been overshadowed by Google's Chrome. Mozilla tried to take the web technology powering Firefox to other devices, but struggled to get acceptance. Its shrinking influence comes at a time when more people are browsing the internet on their phones -- an area where Firefox is particularly weak.
Indeed, I wouldn't want Firefox on my toaster. It might turn the heating elements on correctly, but then it would peg the CPU, consume 3GB of memory and either crash, or just hang, leaving the heating elements on until the the collapse of the house from the inferno rips the wiring from the service connection and finally shuts off the power.
Are you kidding? This is the man who invented Javascript we're talking about. He shouldn't be allowed within twenty miles of a computer again.
I don't use Google because I don't want to use a browser made by a company with nearly unlimited funds that thinks they can dictate whatever interface they want on their users.
That's why I'm sticking with Safari.
#DeleteFacebook
You want multiple threads per tab?!! To render frickin' web pages?!!
I've got news for you, gramps. They're not just web pages any more, they're entire programs now.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Thanks for the update. BTW, my toaster still runs on DOS, so I am stuck using the Lynx browser.