A New Chapter For Mozilla
A New Chapter For Mozilla
Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid
Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?
I think Mozilla could use a new CEO and I want to be optimistic. That said:
- Red flag 1: They made someone from the BoD the new CEO. This rarely works out well
- Red flag 2: The new CEOs CV is full of things that turned into menaces to the public and/or internet (airbnb, paypal, ebay)
I've known Mozilla being great wouldn't last forever, and there it is. Someone from those companies at the helm? Here comes the enshitification.
Yeah the Airbnb, PayPal, eBay pedigree has me more concerned than anything. I wouldn't want any of Mozilla's stuff to be anything close to these things.
what happened with ebay?
eBay banned NFTs, I'm onboard with eBay.
Well there was this thing. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/29/ebay-executive-sentenced-couple-harassment-newsletter
Any bets on which horrible technology fad this one hitches Mozilla's horse to and spends all their money on?
Pocket Powered by AI.
The browser is going to automatically set a new homepage for you based the hottest topics according to AI analysis.
Dynamic bookmarks is going to add suggested sites and automatically sort your bookmarks based on AI-powered ratings.
Hey if we can bend that out of shape to use the open source model mixtral. I been specifically trying to get locallama to organize my tabs and bookmarks into something usable for a while already.
Sure, the normies get AI advertising but we'll get to repurpose for our own use.
Enshitification incoming.
They're going to screw their business customers to claw back value for themselves?
Hadn't yet really started on the users, so we'll be getting it first
"Focus" and "streamline" are usually MBA buzzwords to describe layoffs. Hopefully not the case but sounds rough.
Doubling down on our core products, like Firefox
Expected them to double down on Google tracking, AI, and pocket while laying off Firefox engineers. Still do, but maybe slightly slower now.
"We will be rewriting our base code, working off of Chromium!"
I'd be switching to servo then.
LibreWolf is a very decent Firefox fork. Open Source is great because bad CEOs can't really threaten the source code.
Not saying this one is bad though — I have no idea. The last one was raking in $7 million/year which is less than ideal for an open source project.
Open Source is great because bad CEOs can't really threaten the source code.
Most of the time this is true, but for browser engines it's different because of their sheer size, complexity, need to adhere and collaborate with others to form web standards, need for security experts, day one vulnerability patches, etc.
If Mozilla dies, LibreWolf can't just pick up the slack. They die too. Volunteers alone can't run a modern web engine, it takes hundreds of millions per year to upkeep.
There's a reason why we're down to just Google, Apple, and Mozilla. Nobody wants to foot that bill unless they have a damn good reason for doing so.
It's probably more expensive to maintain a browser engine than a full operating system at this point.
Perhaps we should take the clue and - if we also see clues of Mozilla enshittifying - switch globally to an easier internet that's also easier to program for. Something like Gemini (the post-Gopher thingy, not Google's latest fad) for example, where I take it maintaining a browser is nowhere near the same order of magnitude as complex.
I wish more distro's packaged librewolf. I know there's an appimage and such but I prefer native tested packages where possible.
Doubling down on our core products, like Firefox
Well, I sure fucking hope so. When are we getting back XUL addons or something comparable, you know, the feature that made your browser stand out?
(One can dream, right? Hahaha)
The reason that Firefox sucked ass for so long in speed and features was because xul was an unbeatable burden to maintain. Also, firefoxs extensions are still the most powerful out of any browser
Indeed, they don't have to bring back the XUL. The power users would just appreciate...
- new extension APIs that interact with the browser UI
- bring back toolbar customization that was removed for no reason (we can't even move the extension button at this point...)
- bring back compact mode and better themes (without requiring CSS and about:config tweaks)
Remember when Mozilla the company had a product named Mozilla?
Doubling is nowhere near enough, they need to Quintuple down on that shit
OK, apart from the management bullshit lingo of the article, has anyone an idea what is going to happen?
Obviously they're going to be building platforms that accelerate momentum.
And synergize. We'll loop back and reach out in a couple months to see their single pane of glass.
This is how I read it also... Scroll-scroll... Bullshit statements, scroll, marketing, marketing, self congratulaty shit, marketing, scroll, scroll....
Where does it say what they are going to actually do??
Scroll, scroll, scroll, give up, post on Lemmy. :)
Nothing concrete was said.
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