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No, the nerds were killing the company: https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-the-state-of-mozilla/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-
by lallysingh 5y ago
No, the nerds were killing the company: https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-the-state-of-mozilla/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-the-state-o...
They were taking in a half billion a year and decided to be a haven for at-best, moderately related technology development efforts. They were losing money.
So, after enough bleeding, they stopped doing that and are now experimenting (this is an experiment, just like MDN plus and others) with other things to do. They look like they're still trying to evolve the web.
- JohnBooty 5y agoSo they've gone from technology experiments to... uh, technology experiments? I'm not being snarky: how is this different/better?
- lallysingh 5y agoThey're aiming for a bit of revenue and trying to aim more precisely at the web. In lieu of Rust, which is a wonderful language, but neither web nor revenue-producing.
- webmaven 5y ago> So they've gone from technology experiments to... uh, technology experiments? I think there is a distinction between technology experiments (which produce prototypes and proofs of concept) and product experiments (which produce MVPs).
- causi 5y agoI wish they'd abandon the technology experiments in favor of browser experiments. I don't want Firefox to reinvent the web, I want it to be as pleasant and useful as it was ten years ago.