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Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#101

Post by AshamedCaptain »

metajack wrote: post #8
jszymborski wrote: post #2

Given how different their missions are, I'm surprised to see Facebook on this list.

The CTO of FB is an ex-Mozillian. There are quite a few ex-Mozillians here, including myself. Despite Mozilla's public posture that FB is enemy #1, the internal technical culture is more similar than different.

Enemy #1? I hear more about Facebook in the Firefox default startpage than _everywhere else I look_.

Today, in fact, there is a huge pseudo-advertisiment (at least in fr_FR) about "how I should not feel guilty about browsing Facebook [through Firefox]" , which almost made me puke.

As a person who doesn't care about Facebook whatsoever, I didn't get the impression that FB was enemy #1, but rather I assumed FB was paying them money like Google is...

I can actually see FB being happy to just give money away to Mozilla, just to influence them away from Google.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#102

Post by llacb47 »

PenguinCoder wrote: post #93
gkoberger wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fixed now! Try refreshing.

Not fixed :( /app/views/index.pug:84:1 82| footer An unofficial directory by ex-Mozillian #[a(href="https://gkoberger.com") Gregory Koberger] 83| > 84| --------^ The end of the string reached with no closing bracket ) found.

Refresh, fixed now

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#104

Post by [deleted] »

dependenttypes wrote: post #55
causality0 wrote: post #9

It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.

Or spends 2.5m just for its CEO yearly (not to mention the other executives). I guess it is easier to fire the servo/rust people who did actual work rather than any of the designers or the higher ups.

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Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#105

Post by PenguinCoder »

llacb47 wrote: post #102
PenguinCoder wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not fixed :( /app/views/index.pug:84:1 82| footer An unofficial directory by ex-Mozillian #[a(href="https://gkoberger.com") Gregory Koberger] 83| > 84| --------^ The end of the string reached with no closing bracket ) found.

Refresh, fixed now

Thank you. Nice resource.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#106

Post by PenguinCoder »

Teckla wrote: post #60
signal11 wrote: post #7

Thank you to the MDN and Servo teams for all their hard work. I wish you well for the future and hope you find a new gig soon.

Thank you to the MDN and Servo teams for all their hard work. Gutting the Servo team makes me wonder if management is going to move the rendering engine from Gecko to Blink. Perhaps the "Foxium" browser is "coming soon."

I'll go back to Lynx if that happens. We need FF and the Gecko engine.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#108

Post by gkoberger »

trynumber9 wrote: post #97

Why was this one approved? https://i.imgur.com/knkH44b.png I really doubt Assmunchio is a real name...

There wasn't an approval process initially because I didn't expect this to be so public/popular, but I've switched and now there's an approval process!

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

#110

Post by mulmen »

tw1423214 wrote: post #95
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'revenue' from Firefox was never enough. It's only really just struck me that of course Google funding them made a dependency and 1) made the company grow beyond its needs, and 2) made it not seek self-sufficiency. If Google are stopping the money then FF is like a person with no money taken in by Google and hooked on drugs; once they're kicked out they can't fund the habit and reliance on Google has meant they've no…

It's not true that "'revenue' from Firefox was never enough", and it's bordering on misinformation to speculate that "Google are stopping the money". edit: Really, could you please not do that? Asking "Is the search deal not expiring?" is even worse than the earlier comment...

Is the search deal not expiring?

e: to your edit.

I'm not sure what is wrong with the question. My understanding is that the search deal is expiring and is the source of most of the FF related revenue.

If that is not the case I'd like to know. It seems like a reasonable question.

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