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Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team

posted by chromas on Thursday August 13 2020, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the here-today,-gone-tomorrow dept.

takyon writes:

Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

The Mozilla Corporation announced today it was laying off approximately 250 staff members in a move to shore up the organization's financial future.

The layoffs were publicly announced in a blog post today. Employees were notified hours before, earlier this morning, via an email [PDF] sent by Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corporation CEO and Mozilla Foundation Chairwoman.

Baker's message cited the organization's need to adapt its finances to a post-COVID-19 world and re-focus the organization on new commercial services.

[...] In 2018, the Mozilla Corporation said it had around 1,000 full-time employees worldwide. Mozilla previously laid off 70 employees in January. Several sources have told ZDNet that the recent layoffs accounted for nearly a quarter of the organization's workforce.

Main casualties of today's layoffs were the developers working on the company's experimental Servo browser engine and Mozilla's threat management security team. The latter is the security team that investigates security reports and performs incident response. The security team that fixes bugs in Mozilla products is still in place, according to sources and a Mozilla spokesperson.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 13 2020, @11:28PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday August 13 2020, @11:28PM (#1036356) Journal

    Really, none of the alternative browsers seem worth using at this point, but in my experience Falkon does *most* things right. For some reason I cannot get it to work on sites like imgur or reddit, but that may be just my attempt at locking it down.

    Much like how no one runs Windows for Windows itself but for the applications, I only keep Firefox around for certain plugins, uBlock Origin being the big one. If the Falkon devs port that, and perhaps replace their inbuilt ad-blocker with it, it will go a long way to making the browser usable. The underlying rendering engine is essentially Chrome anyway.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Teckla on Friday August 14 2020, @05:55PM

    by Teckla (3812) on Friday August 14 2020, @05:55PM (#1036637)

    Really, none of the alternative browsers seem worth using at this point, but in my experience Falkon does *most* things right.

    The so-called "alternative browsers" are always behind on security patches -- sometimes dangerously behind. It doesn't seem like a good idea to use any of them -- and that includes Falkon.

  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday August 20 2020, @02:26AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday August 20 2020, @02:26AM (#1039190) Journal
    If links didn't have retarded layout of sites that use tables to lay out stuff it would be good enough for me. Having to page down 35 times just to get past the left column and into the stories is lame in 2020. But that's just me - I don't need cat pictures or porn, so I'm a very very small minority.
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