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All these complaints are true, and there’s many similar ones. Firefox (née Mozilla) is a terribly mismanaged company. Instead of focusing on their core busine
by mikl 5y ago
All these complaints are true, and there’s many similar ones.
Firefox (née Mozilla) is a terribly mismanaged company. Instead of focusing on their core business, making a great browser, they keep launching weird also-ran side projects that inevitably fail, to name a few:
Firefox VPN, Firefox Notes, Firefox Lockwise, Firefox Monitor, Firefox Send, Firefox Hello, Firefox OS, Mozilla Persona, etc.
It’s one thing to fritter away your fortunes and engineering talent on fun side projects when the main business (and money-maker) is doing well, but to do so when it’s floundering is massively irresponsible.
Baker & co. are making off like bandits, paying themselves lavish salaries while running the company into the ground. Unfortunately, there’s no Firefox stock holders that can sue them for mismanagement.
So as the Google/Apple browser duopoly is slowly cemented, we can only blame Mozilla management for destroying the only truly open and independent browser left.
- ymolodtsov 5y agoFirefox Lockwise actually makes sense. It allows users to keep their passwords in Firefox on desktop and then access them on iOS, for instance. Chrome just recently turned itself into a password manager on iOS. Agree about all the other projects though.
- soundnote 5y agoI think stuff like notes, Pocket in general, VPN and password management make sense as side activities for a browser maker. Firefox OS is rather ambitious, though. Not that they were the only ones who tried, see eg. Ubuntu's failed phone OS.
- dralley 5y agoMake up your minds "Mozilla get 95% of their revenue from Google, that's terrible! They shouldn't be so dependent!" "How dare Mozilla try to make money from products other than Firefox!"