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.”

  • @btaf45
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    -717 days ago

    How does that help with unwanted update nagging?

    • @tomalley8342
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      1217 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        17 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]
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          117 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.