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> My impression is that they lost the original spirit. Mozilla lacked a BDFL that would embody that spirit. Since we are sharing our impressions, mine is that
by probably_wrong 5y ago
> My impression is that they lost the original spirit. Mozilla lacked a BDFL that would embody that spirit.
Since we are sharing our impressions, mine is that the Mozilla Foundation's current CEO doesn't believe in Firefox. Instead, I think, they are leveraging Firefox' popularity to try and position the Mozilla Foundation as a defender of internet freedom, at which point they won't need Firefox anymore.
What happens to Firefox once they achieve that? No idea. The cynic in me believes they will keep doing whatever Chrome is doing until the project is virtually dead, but I honestly hope I'm wrong.
- jacquesm 5y agoYou're probably_right. This meshes with most of their actions and a lot of comments by Mozilla employees on HN in past threads about Mozilla/FF.
- vbezhenar 5y agoAt one point they'll ditch Firefox engine and turn Firefox into Chromium skin. That'll allow to drastically reduce development expenses. Given the fact that nobody catched Servo after they threw it, the same fate will probably happen with Quantum.