This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • @btaf45English
    -61•16 days ago

    Why the heck did Mozilla need 120 employees for anyway? I hate that Firefox is updated so often because I always get Firefox Update Fatigue. I hope that fewer employees means fewer Firefox updates.

    • @gaylord_fartmasterEnglish
      65•16 days ago

      Just turn the updates off. Might want to remove the seatbelts from your car too, so annoying having to put them on and take them off every time you need to drive somewhere.

      • @btaf45English
        -10•16 days ago

        Doesn’t work. Firefox keeps nagging me to update every freaking time I open the browser. Now if they let me turn the nagging off it wouldn’t be so bad.

        I want an update once per quarter, not once per week. Only more often than that if there is a critical security fix.

          • @btaf45English
            -7•15 days ago

            How does that help with unwanted update nagging?

            • @tomalley8342English
              12•15 days ago

              You will get one update per year, and “only more often that that if there is a critical security fix”.

              • @[email protected]English
                10•15 days ago

                There’s no winning. Some people use the regular version and complain about the updates, while others use the ESR release and complain that sites that use cutting-edge features don’t work properly.

                The solution to updates is to use Linux, since then it’ll update through your distro’s package manager along with your other software.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•15 days ago

                  Chrome does this just fine on windows. It just updates in the background so the only thing you need to do is (re)open chrome and it’s done. Firefox doesn’t, and waits until you try to launch it to update. On my laptop where I use FF infrequently makes it’s startup time about 30 seconds basically every time I open it.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•15 days ago

      Well this is a unique take. But don’t worry, there’s a Firefox for you, too. Try the ESR, or Extended Support Release, it

      receives major updates on average every 52 weeks with minor updates such as crash fixes, security fixes and policy updates as needed, but at least every four weeks.

      • @btaf45English
        1•13 days ago

        Extended Support Release,

        Hey thanks for the info. I didn’t know about this.