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- firefox@lemmy.ml
Mozilla Corp., which manages the open-source Firefox browser, announced today that Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit foundation. Laura Chambers, a Mozilla board member and entrepreneur with experience at Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay, will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.
Official Blog Post: A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future
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hi new CEO, any plans to update Thunderbird to look like it was made within the last decade?
“Mozilla now makes most of its almost $600 million in annual revenue from promoting Chrome as the default search engine on its home page.”
Proofreading FTW.
Chrome is just the internet, duh. Do you not support the internet? I have two internets on my computer, in case the first goes down or something. But the one internet hasn’t had any issues, I just keep the second as a backup.
– anyone in US govt
Did the Neutral President write this?
All I know is, my gut says maybe.
I am a big fan of Firefox+Thunderbird and subscribe to Pocket, Mozilla VPN and Firefox Relay. I don’t think she was the right CEO for the job, coming into the job because she was needed after the Eich debacle, not because she was the best choice. When I listened or read interviews with her I sensed a lack of focus, which I think came through with the lack of focus and commitment I sense in Firefox’s products. She seems like a better fit for chair of the foundation, pursuing pie in the sky ideas rather than in the trenches trying to rebuild Mozilla’s presence and diversify their revenues. Pocket has stagnated under their care, and actually grown less useful to the point I am considering switching. The Android browser is stuck in time. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Thunderbird has flourished after pursuing a semi-independent structure: they finally had people who actually cared about the product calling the shots.
I had to stop using Pocket and moved to Raindrop.io because the search on pocket has been soooooo bad.
Stuck in time after the addon thing? It’s an amazing change.
pivots to data privacy
Should have not named Laura then, just to highlight the point. 😛
Mozilla is a for-proifit company!?!
Pivots to days privacy? What was their focus before?
Burning foxes
In recent years they had focused toward providing features to sync between Mozilla services. I don’t know if that was a primary focus or not, but their branding has been “we’re privacy focused” for a while anyway…
They should focus more on their mobile browser. At this point the desktop browser is on par with Chrome. People who use Chrome does it because they don’t care enough about privacy, but on mobile there is a noticeable difference between their performances.
I wonder if they understand themselves what they want with ai and whatever other things they mention for better internet. What other things? At least CEO change could lead to something better lol.
Mozilla is pivoting to privacy or the old CEO is?
Mozilla. They just launched a “delete me” service, and apparently they want to do more of that.
Wow mozilla is getting into euthanasia business?
For others who are curious: https://monitor.mozilla.org/
