This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • snowcrushed573@lemmy.worldEnglish
    435·
    7 days ago

    Everytime I see comments regarding Mozilla’'s financials,I have the same effing question: How does a company like brave or opera maintain their browser ?? AFAIK both don’t have the level of community backing that Mozilla does nor do they have any (again AFAIK) agreement with a company like google for default search engine placement

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      7 days ago

      They use chromium.

      Firefox does not.

      The grand majority of software engineering effort goes into the browser development that they never have to work on for the most part.

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      422·
      7 days ago

      those are just rebranded chrome(ium). all browsers except firefox and safari are rebranded chromium or firefox. edit: there are some other projects but none are mature.

      • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        95·
        7 days ago

        Apple also maintains their own browser engine, but that’s Apple.

          • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            62·
            7 days ago

            Ah, I guess I read over the first bit to where you mentioned the rebrands, which didn’t include Safari.

            To still add some useful information: all browsers on iOS are rebranded Safari, because Apple only permits their own browser engine.

            (The EU ruling may change this, however)

    • fatalicus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      183·
      7 days ago

      Brave just tries to scam their users for money.

      Like when they added “donate to the content creator” links on YouTube and such, then didn’t actually give the money to the content creators.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      7 days ago

      BTW, about Opera - the newest events with OpenAI and other stuff and Winamp devs not being prosecuted for GPL violations all lead me to one thought.

      Are leaked Presto sources really-really illegal to use?

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Alongside what the other guy said, Opera definitely does have search engine deals, idk about brave since they launched their own. But brave has their own private advertising system