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Mozilla Giving Up on Firefox

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 31, 2023

Jamie Zawinski ☛ Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?

In fact, Mozilla leadership stated, quite plainly, that they intend to take Mozilla "in a different direction."

[Repeat] Bryan Lunduke ☛ Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives

The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla's reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:

The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)

While the Mozilla revenue drops

And the Firefox Marketshare takes a nosedive

Mozilla ☛ Making the impossible possible — again

When I think about Mozilla’s next 25 years, I think about doubling down on the playbook that worked the first time: gathering a community of people who want to make the impossible possible. Diving into the world of trustworthy AI over the last few years, I’ve met many such people — thinkers and builders and inventors and dreamers who want AI to look dramatically different.