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This would be a decent point if nobody had any interest in chromium alternatives and Firefox was a new upstart brand, neither of which are true. Usually, when
by franklyt 5y ago
This would be a decent point if nobody had any interest in chromium alternatives and Firefox was a new upstart brand, neither of which are true.
Usually, when a CEO heads an explicitly sinking ship, the CEO will be removed and someone will be brought in to turn around the company.
No idea why that hasn’t happened.
- throwaway3699 5y agoThey already replaced their last CEO due to outrage. Another replacement would signal disaster.
- dralley 5y ago> This would be a decent point if nobody had any interest in chromium alternatives and Firefox was a new upstart brand, neither of which are true. What? The dominance of the mobile space by one of their competitors, who pre-installs their own browser, and who advertised said browser for free on the most visited website on the planet (google.com) for years, is absolutely relevant regardless of how old Mozilla is. And the world isn't like HN, most people don't care that much about their browsers, and don't even know what "chromium" is.
- franklyt 5y agoFirefox has, since incipience, faced that challenge. Anyhow, the point I’m making is that I don’t agree that it is impossible to compete with trenched competition. Firefox has some prior momentum themselves, they’re not quite an upstart.
- kbrosnan 5y agoThe last 10 years worth of CEOs for Mozilla Corp. 2008-2010 John Lilly 2010-2013 Gary Kovacs 2014 Brendan Eich 2014-2019 Chris Beard 2020-now Mitchel Baker [edit formatting]
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