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I've been at Mozilla four years, working on operations security, and I still consider it the best job I've ever had. I worked in banking and a few startups bef
by jvehent 9y ago
I've been at Mozilla four years, working on operations security, and I still consider it the best job I've ever had.
I worked in banking and a few startups before joining Mozilla, and neither the culture or technology were ever great. Mozilla has both of these things, and a mission statement that still makes me want to get out of bed in the morning (work for mankind, not for the man).
Is it a sinking ship? Only if we're not up for the challenge of fighting back corporations that want to lock the web being walled gardens. Time will tell, but someone should fight the good fight, even if it's a lost cause.
Plus, you get cool t-shirts, and work from home, which is definitely a lifestyle improvement for me.
- tbolt 9y agoThis is exactly what I was hoping to hear. I have frequently been looking at careers.mozilla.org
- Jdam 9y agoAll this "we make the world a better place" is actually the most annoying thing for me as a user. Every time I open Firefox (not so often anymore), I get some "save the world"-spam on the frontpage.
- inanutshellus 9y agoHave you tried changing your default start page? ;-)
- Jdam 9y agoI tried changing my default web browser. Worked.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- bananaoomarang 9y agoA drastic solution!
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- celticninja 9y agoSo what's your default web browser and how does it greet you?
- dan1234 9y agoNot OP, but Safari. It greets me with a blank page, which is just how I like it.
- bjpbakker 9y agoHuh? Since when is the default start page of Safari not apple.com? Or did you change it manually?
- hysan 9y agoI don't know what it was like before, but when I got my first MacBook Pro maybe 2 years ago, the default start page for Safari was blank. Edit: Out of curiosity, I checked to see my defaults and the Homepage is still apple.com. However, the "opens with" settings are set to Favorites (top of the list, probably the default) which explains why it opens with a blank page. So the change was probably whenever they added the Favorites page feature; most likely to compete with Chrome/Firefox/Opera/etc.
- gcp 9y agoI get some tiles with the most popular websites. So actually the same as the new tab page in Firefox.
- mnsc 9y agoHave you tried stop making the world a worse place? ;-)
- ben-schaaf 9y agoWhen I open Chrome it sends me to google.com. How is that any different? Either way I'm going to settings and making it reopen the tabs I last had open.
- malmsteen 9y agopoor little thing #firstworldproblems
- tbolt 9y agoWould you rather them throw in the towel?
- nsebban 9y ago> Is it a sinking ship? Only if we're not up for the challenge of fighting back corporations that want to lock the web being walled gardens. Time will tell, but someone should fight the good fight, even if it's a lost cause. It definitely is a fight worth fighting. And most people will agree that having several good web-browser options is important. What bothers me is the strategy that Mozilla used, to try and compete with Chrome by giving Firefox users a browser that looks like, and feeling like Chrome. I wouldn't want to work for an organisation who makes such ill-advised choices.
- gcp 9y agogiving Firefox users a browser that looks like, and feeling like Chrome. Yawn. What did we do this time? Make it faster? Follow platform guidelines or modernize the design style? Adopt an extension model that can be combined with replacing the browser internals? Use rounded tabs? No wait, scratch that, they're square again.
- amelius 9y agoNext time, avoid the whole problem and make the browser layout more user-configurable (in an easy way).
- gcp 9y agoI think there should also be a switch to make it faster.
- jvehent 9y agoLike that "turbo" switch on my 1990s PC!
- hutzlibu 9y agoSure, sarcasm helps. I think he meant a few checkboxes, for choosing things like round corners etc. which should not be too hard. Really necessary? Maybe not, but you should realize, that you have a shrinking core group of users, while liked Firefox because they could modify it the way they wanted - and therefore did not liked it, when frequently changes broke their setup.