Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-cutting-60-191639445.html

by isaacfrond • 2 years ago

19 7 2 years ago

finance.yahoo.com

Xeyz0r• 2 years ago

Is it just me or I've heard so many news on Jobs cut...

Mozilla said that the move affects about 5% of its workforce and that the cuts were primarily in the product development organization. The company informed employees of the decision on Tuesday.
“We’re scaling back investment in some product areas in order to focus on areas that we feel have the greatest chance of success,” Mozilla said in a statement. “We intend to re-prioritize resources against products like Firefox Mobile, where there’s a significant opportunity to grow and establish a better model for the industry.”

Great, so they are cutting costs in browser development again... it's not like they have the last major non-Chromium browser in the market.

mikro2nd• 2 years ago

In favour of adding some totally unwanted "AI" instead.

I find it hard to see what value a RAG/LLM would add to a browser. Removing ads and popups maybe? Oh wait, I already have plugins that do those...

zamadatix• 2 years ago

The quote seems to suggest the opposite with the one example of new focus it provides.

MathMonkeyMan• 2 years ago

The quote's use of "against" and "where" confuses me.

perihelions• 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362481 (148 comments)

anotherhue• 2 years ago

Their 2022 report (page 8) shows a figure of $6.9 Million for Baker. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990...

Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO

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