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Fun fact: Mozilla projects are now developed in part by Cognizant Softvision, including Firefox for Android. Their employees are everywhere on Mozilla bug track

Fun fact: Mozilla projects are now developed in part by Cognizant Softvision, including Firefox for Android. Their employees are everywhere on Mozilla bug trackers, and their numbers seem to have increased since 2020, right after Mozilla fired a quarter of its workforce. https://www.cognizantsoftvision.com/blog/pedal-metal-mozilla/ https://www.cognizantsoftvision.com/blog/pedal-metal-mozilla...

alfiedotwtf 4y ago
This pisses me straight off. Someone needs to fork Mozilla (the company) and bring back its hayday culture.
- willywanker 4y ago
  Already happened years ago, if you want the old Firefox with XUL extension support, full themes and zero tracking as it was before they started copying Chrome in 2011, give Pale Moon a try. It's an independent fork, the last independent browser left, with its own rendering engine Goanna that is a fork of Firefox's Gecko.
- propogandist 4y ago
  they went woke, and are on the path to go broke. Sadly, they’re the only mainstream competition to Chrome.
  - waste_monk 4y ago
    > and are on the path to go broke. Sadly, they’re the only mainstream competition to Chrome. Is it overly cynical of me to wonder if this is Google's doing? Setting someone to infiltrate Mozilla's management and sabotage it, with the long-term goal of killing all serious non-chromium alternatives. I don't know about the woke thing, I figure it's more likely to be about removing ad-block friendly API's in Manifest V3 (and presumably even more hostile changes in some future Manifest V4).
    - sdf4j 4y ago
      Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly. And the woke thing is non sense.
      - userbinator 4y ago
        Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly. Google wants Firefox to stay around, but in a form that's much closer to Chrome. Of all the browsers that still have significant userbase remaining, Firefox is an "anomaly" in that it's one the user has more control over, and Google is slowly trying to change that.
udkl 4y ago
This is a #TIL to me. I'm not sure I would trust these Mozilla projects going ahead.
- csande17 4y ago
  Luckily, if https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA_SoftVision_Team https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA_SoftVision_Team is any indication, they're mostly babysitting test suites and reviewing submissions to the add-on store and stuff. (That and developing Firefox for Android, but Firefox for Android has sucked and included tracking SDKs for years now.)

alfiedotwtf 4y ago

This pisses me straight off. Someone needs to fork Mozilla (the company) and bring back its hayday culture.

willywanker 4y ago
Already happened years ago, if you want the old Firefox with XUL extension support, full themes and zero tracking as it was before they started copying Chrome in 2011, give Pale Moon a try. It's an independent fork, the last independent browser left, with its own rendering engine Goanna that is a fork of Firefox's Gecko.
propogandist 4y ago
they went woke, and are on the path to go broke. Sadly, they’re the only mainstream competition to Chrome.
- waste_monk 4y ago
  > and are on the path to go broke. Sadly, they’re the only mainstream competition to Chrome. Is it overly cynical of me to wonder if this is Google's doing? Setting someone to infiltrate Mozilla's management and sabotage it, with the long-term goal of killing all serious non-chromium alternatives. I don't know about the woke thing, I figure it's more likely to be about removing ad-block friendly API's in Manifest V3 (and presumably even more hostile changes in some future Manifest V4).
  - sdf4j 4y ago
    Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly. And the woke thing is non sense.
    - userbinator 4y ago
      Nobody wants firefox to stay around more than google. Its one of their few escape cards in an antitrust trial for browser monopoly. Google wants Firefox to stay around, but in a form that's much closer to Chrome. Of all the browsers that still have significant userbase remaining, Firefox is an "anomaly" in that it's one the user has more control over, and Google is slowly trying to change that.

udkl 4y ago

This is a #TIL to me. I'm not sure I would trust these Mozilla projects going ahead.

csande17 4y ago
Luckily, if https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA_SoftVision_Team https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA_SoftVision_Team is any indication, they're mostly babysitting test suites and reviewing submissions to the add-on store and stuff. (That and developing Firefox for Android, but Firefox for Android has sucked and included tracking SDKs for years now.)