This could be a benefit to Firefox. Mozilla has wasted millions on frivolous projects not related to Firefox. I’d much rather support Firefox directly.
It's tough to see a project with so much potential struggling. It feels like they've spread themselves too thin. Focusing solely on Firefox and core web initiatives like MDN seems like the most logical path forward. Imagine what they could achieve if all that effort was poured back into what made them great in the first place, rather than some of the other ventures that don't seem to be gaining much traction.
keeping the internet free and open is marxist? I'm so sick of this american political witch hunt against anything that appears slightly good for the working class, you people are obsessed with self destruction
It's too bad that Mozilla hasn't saved up enough money that allows them to fund Firefox development in perpetuity at current expenditure rates through passive income from the interest generated from their investments.
Without money from Google or a suitable alternative they're going to burn through whatever savings they have pretty fast.
Author mentions the cash Mozilla has on hand and that it's enough to keep them afloat "for a little while"
A quick scan of the author's post suggest they're pretty agenda driven, hence the weird "Marxist" name calling which in addition to the above admission that the post is clickbait kinda puts the author's judgement and credibility in question
Respectfully to the OP, I don't see the point in posting substack/like content like this that's designed to drive a completely different and quite frankly unhelpful kind of discussion
Despite any missteps it took, Mozilla fought a good fight. In hindsight, the mistakes seem obvious. And leadership poor.
But they pushed the open web forward. Good on them.
However, I don’t think Firefox is important anymore (I’m a loyal user). And I don’t think Mozilla can create something different. We need a movement more than a well funded organization for this next phase.
Wikipedia is in a very similar predicament. Or soon will be.
I very much hope the judge blocks google from paying mozilla. Google is paying mozilla to make firefox not compete against them.
I look forward to when mozilla can compete fairly without google money to make a good browser again.
>Rebrand (and re-focus) on political activism in the hopes of securing new funding sources. (They are now a “global crew of activists” focused on Marxist causes.)
I thought they were already this? No?
It does seem an effective way to ruin their organization.
I'm using FF right now so I am not just saying this as some empty plea but an honest call for Mozilla to stop fucking around and make a solid portable browser that respects the user. Give us all the control we want. It's our computer so give us an "our browser" not a FAANG or whatever browser.
Really no direct replacements for me if funding collapses such that both Firefox and Thunderbird go. Firefox's multi-account containers are unparalleled in their ease of separation. This was really the feature that lured me back from Chrome, which is all too happy to merge your "identities" into a single "profile." Yes, you can do multiple profiles, but not on a per tab basis. Thunderbird would also be a great loss as it's always been my go-to for HTML email management and it actually had decent GPG support. Sigh...
I kind of wonder if they simply tried to hard to pivot into being a big tech company. It felt like at one point there was a new product announcement every few weeks. Very few of those exist today.
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[ 416 ms ] story [ 1327 ms ] threadWhat Marxist causes are the people at Firefox supporting? Maybe stop using the money for these causes to support your product.
Without money from Google or a suitable alternative they're going to burn through whatever savings they have pretty fast.
A quick scan of the author's post suggest they're pretty agenda driven, hence the weird "Marxist" name calling which in addition to the above admission that the post is clickbait kinda puts the author's judgement and credibility in question
Respectfully to the OP, I don't see the point in posting substack/like content like this that's designed to drive a completely different and quite frankly unhelpful kind of discussion
But they pushed the open web forward. Good on them.
However, I don’t think Firefox is important anymore (I’m a loyal user). And I don’t think Mozilla can create something different. We need a movement more than a well funded organization for this next phase.
Wikipedia is in a very similar predicament. Or soon will be.
I look forward to when mozilla can compete fairly without google money to make a good browser again.
>Rebrand (and re-focus) on political activism in the hopes of securing new funding sources. (They are now a “global crew of activists” focused on Marxist causes.)
I thought they were already this? No?
It does seem an effective way to ruin their organization.
I'm using FF right now so I am not just saying this as some empty plea but an honest call for Mozilla to stop fucking around and make a solid portable browser that respects the user. Give us all the control we want. It's our computer so give us an "our browser" not a FAANG or whatever browser.
(Sell itself to Tencent, perhaps?)
I kind of wonder if they simply tried to hard to pivot into being a big tech company. It felt like at one point there was a new product announcement every few weeks. Very few of those exist today.
https://kagi.com/orion/
> They are now a “global crew of activists” focused on Marxist causes.