Longtime Mozilla Leader Mitchell Baker is Now CEO (cnet.com) 34
On Wednesday, Mozilla chair and longtime leader Mitchell Baker was named permanent CEO of the company that makes the Firefox web browser. From a report: Mitchell became interim CEO of Mozilla in December 2019, after former CEO Chris Beard resigned. The company conducted an external candidate search over the last eight months, and concluded the Mitchell is the right leader for Mozilla at this time, according to a company blog post published Wednesday. "Increasingly, numbers of people recognize that the internet needs attention," Baker said in another Mozilla blog post Wednesday. "Mozilla has a special, if not unique role to play here. It's time to tune our existing assets to meet the challenge. It's time to make use of Mozilla's ingenuity and unbelievable technical depth and understanding of the "web" platform to make new products and experiences. It's time to gather with others who want these things and work together to make them real."
Mozilla needs a "user's CEO" (Score:5, Insightful)
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The problem is that a lot of what these vocal users want is "don't change things". That has big issues. Sometimes it's necessary for technical reasons they don't understand, e.g. the add-on system overhaul. Sometimes it just diverts limited resources to maintaining code that few people use.
I'm not saying it's a terrible idea but don't expect it to fix everything.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/ [xkcd.com]
Re: Mozilla needs a "user's CEO" (Score:2)
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As long has he never made a donation (Score:2, Insightful)
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing out what should be obvious to anyone who thinks that they are appropriately informed to write a comment on this topic. And, moreover, thank you for pointing out that she has been involved with the mission and the company for a long time. While that does not necessarily make her the right choice at this time, it certainly means that she is not just a "newcomer" who was hired to "shake things up", though I think that she does have good ideas for revitalizing the or
She was Netscape's lawyer. (Score:2)
Not that it takes away from her knowledge of the company/industry, just clarifying it was not a technical position (programmer/developer).
I've got questions Mike... (Score:2)
Google's beard (Score:3)
It's pretty obvious that the only thing keeping Mozilla afloat is Google's money, which Google is happy to pay. Propping up something resembling "competition" helps Google deflect some amount of anti-trust attention. It's even better when the competition Google is funding is on a trajectory to alienate ALL of its users (though if Firefox actually dips under 2% of market share that might be so low that they no longer provide Google with meaningful cover).
What a shitshow.
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Sellout (Score:1)
Hah...and just today.... (Score:2, Interesting)
...I transitioned from Firefox to Edge (Chromium) on all my devices. The gap in performance and battery life way to large for way too many years to make Firefox worth it anymore. And mobile Firefox is a joke compared to Blink/Chromium based browsers.
Why they won't make their browser better, I will never understand. I tried to suggest to some of them to fork and make a Blink/Chromium version, with all the privacy-infringing codes and services from Google/MS ripped out. Now that will give them feature and per
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Pale Moon isn't a great example. It forked, and the developers found it was too much work to even back port the improvements in Firefox.
I don't find any serious compatibly issues with Firefox. Running uBlock and a few other privacy enhancements breaks far more anyway.
They really just need to fix the mobile version.
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It's unclear if you're referring to Firefox on the desktop or mobile devices. The fact you mentioned battery suggests mobile. On mobile, Firefox Preview is the future and is snappier, not plain "Firefox", which uses an older rendering system.
Re: Hah...and just today.... (Score:2)
Competiton does not die if you make a hard fork. Firefox is competing on 2 levels here. One is the battle of the browsers.. how a browser handles features, privacy etc. The other is a battle of the engines - Blink versus Gecko. Gecko has clearly lost.
I am suggesting Mozilla build a Firefox which has feature parity on the engine level with Chrome. This is what Microsoft has done. It is a clever move.
MS had their own engine too with Edge. But they understood they had lost to Chrome. So they took the engine fr
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Isn't all of it beat pretty hard by servo (which admittedly is still unfinished)?
I have never seen any numbers. Servo is to the web what nuclear fusion is to energy.
Welcome to Netscape 2.0... (Score:2)
Harrumph. (Score:1)