The non-profit Mozilla foundation created and maintains Firefox, my browser of choice. (I've also written a Firefox addon.)
Unfortunately, senior management there is complete pants.
Rather than focusing on the browser, they have spent their time trying to sell me a VPN, or a way to save web pages to the cloud, collaboration software, etc.
Now, Mozilla is laying off people so that it can focus on AI.
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product strategy, TechCrunch has learned.
Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay and its Online Footprint Scrubber. Mozilla will also shut down Hubs, the 3D virtual world it launched back in 2018, and scale back its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance. The layoffs will affect roughly 60 employees. Bloomberg previously reported the layoffs.
Going forward, the company said in an internal memo, Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” To do so, it will bring together the teams that work on Pocket, Content and AI/Ml.
Well, that filled in my bullsh%4 bingo card.
Maybe Mozilla should pay senior management less, and hire management less likely to mindlessly follow the latest shiny object, and just work on the damn browser.
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