Notices tagged with mozilla

David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 06:49:34 UTC David Revoy

Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )
#comic #firefox #mozilla
In conversation about 2 months ago from framapiaf.org permalink
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1. A four panel comic parody of an internet meme: "Putting on Clown Makeup", but this time the man is a fox with a tail in fire as a ref to the Firefox mascot.
  https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/113/155/377/865/141/931/original/7475813fb1f260f5.jpg
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  Mozilla (@mozilla@mozilla.social)
  
  from Mozilla
  
  We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq).
jade (leftpaddotpy@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 04:21:38 UTC jade

Mastodon #psa: there's a post going around about #mozilla #firefox and the salary of the Mozilla Corporation CEO. This post is based on a blog post written by an openly transphobic fascist, Brian Lunduke, who has a beef with Mozilla for them treating trans employees like human beings.
It doesn't matter how true the material is; we must not take decisions based on information collated with such motives.
edit: post now changed to not link there. an improvement.

In conversation about 11 months ago from hachyderm.io permalink
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:07:34 UTC Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

IMHO: #Mozilla is repeating the #OpenAI process. A growing conflict between community driven/focused products and greedy managers thinking more VC (Venture Capital) style as they become more and more decoupled from the humble origins. This conflict will explode (I mean — asking for donations while the managers take home millions has a weird smell to it) soon and money will win (again). It's really a shame in this case.

In conversation about 11 months ago from social.wildeboer.net permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 22:06:22 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nu.federati.net/url/291530 [www bleepingcomputer com]

#Mozilla releases emergency patches for #zero_day flaw in #Firefox and #Thunderbird. #Time_to_update
In conversation about a year ago from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Mozilla patches Firefox, Thunderbird against zero-day exploited in attacks
  
  from @BleepinComputer
  
  Mozilla released emergency security updates today to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, impacting its Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:42:51 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
in reply to
- GNU Social
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Also, #Vivaldi now has its own #Mastodon instance. I think #Brave Browser had an unofficial instance at one time, and #Mozilla intends to open theirs early in 2023.

I'm still not "there" yet, but I am doing some #PHP stuff. Maybe I'll be able to help make !GNUsocial and #Friendica competitive candidates for $ORGANIZATION deploying their own #Fediverse presence.

In conversation Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:42:51 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 23:19:53 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/ [blog mozilla org]

#Mozilla is standing up a Mastodon instance and joining the #Fediverse
In conversation Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 23:19:53 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative
  
  from Steve Teixeira
  
  In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We’re eager to join the community in gro
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 03:09:44 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Google #Chrome and all other browsers based on #Chromium will get some changes to their extensions API which will reduce the ability of ad-blocking extensions. #Mozilla #Firefox is rejecting that part of the change, so Firefox and other browsers based on their code will retain superior ad-blocking capabilities.

In conversation Monday, 13-Jun-2022 03:09:44 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
Sebastian Lasse (sl007@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Mar-2022 06:09:45 UTC Sebastian Lasse
in reply to
- Be
@be
#Firefox wants to help build a better internet.
I doubt a red panda will help.
Only Coca Cola wallpapers can save the web.
#Mozilla

In conversation Saturday, 05-Mar-2022 06:09:45 UTC from digitalcourage.social permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 00:48:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
in reply to
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
A lot of us are concerned about #Firefox, about #Thunderbird, and about #Mozilla itself. The trouble is, most of the seeds of Moz's current affliction were planted early on, when the #Google search deal was first signed.

They received an unimaginable amount of money, and being good people, they decided to pour it into becoming the Web's advocate and (later on) the Web's privacy advocate.

They built a large organization, with some very high salaries at the top, based on the revenue they received from a single customer. And then that customer launched its own browser, #Chrome, in part because Firefox was going slower than Google desired because so many resources were going into other projects and because Google's plans were not always aligned with what Mozilla believed was best for the Web.

It was always an unsustainable situation, and when things changed due to cooperation being replaced with coopetition, they started a panicked grasping for other revenue sources.

Now, they've cut actual developers, which makes it even more difficult to keep up with Chrome / #Chromium (and the many browsers derived from it). And because they need to find other revenue sources, they keep looking for ad deals ... which runs crosswise with its core users, who want to block ads.

So, yeah, I don't see a way out that leaves them as anything other than a niche product produced by a small team of mostly volunteers.

I do think _personalization_ as a differentiator is going to flop, if they're thinking about color schemes and superhero logos. A big chunk of what people did with XUL (the former technology, and what made it so customizable) was produce ad blockers, script blockers, embedded-media blockers, pop-up blockers, cookie and tracking blockers, proxy tools, and web development tools (webdev toolbars, xml toolbars, json tools, css and xsl tools, sqlite tools). I just don't think that the ability to make your browser look like the Spiderman t-shirt you bought last week is going to win over a lot of people who are using Chrome/Chomium/Edge/Opera/Vivaldi/Brave/Iron.

Now, maybe if they make it the most secure and private browser right out of the box, with ad blocking, script blocking, and so on, plus make it faster than the Chromium family while consuming less RAM and crashing less often, then adding the ability to dress the browser up as Dora the Explorer will total enough advantages to make a difference.

In conversation Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 00:48:48 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 23:23:30 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.wired.com/story/firefox-mozilla-2022/
Yeah, a lot of us are concerned about #Firefox, and about #Mozilla in general.
In conversation Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 23:23:30 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Is Firefox OK?
  
  from Condé Nast
  
  Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-May-2021 03:56:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
in reply to
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Also: #Chromium based browser #Brave disables #Google’s #FLoC https://brave.com/why-brave-disable-floc/ [brave com]

https://nu.federati.net/url/281049 [www theverge com] notes that #Mozilla #Firefox currently has no plans to implement #FLoC and that #DuckDuckGo is already working to block FLoC.

#Microsoft #Edge and #Apple #Safari issued somewhat evasive answers, but it is expected that Apple will be 100% no on FLoC.
In conversation Sunday, 09-May-2021 03:56:36 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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2. Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC
  
  from The Verge
  
  The future of the web is at stake
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 21:27:05 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nitro.horse/@andreas/105249830532698872

"Sponsored sites" in the #Firefox 83 URL bar? No, #Mozilla, just no.
In conversation Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 21:27:05 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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  By nitrohorse Ⓐ from nitro.horse
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Nov-2020 17:06:00 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

We wondered how #Mozilla’s layoffs would affect #Servo, the next-gen browser engine code for #Firefox. Answer: the Linux Foundation is taking over Servo development https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Foundation-Servo [phoronix com]
In conversation Tuesday, 17-Nov-2020 17:06:00 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Oct-2020 16:24:33 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

From August.

#Mozilla and #Google renew $400M search deal for three years. https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-google-search-deal/ [www zdnet com]
In conversation Saturday, 31-Oct-2020 16:24:33 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal | ZDNet
  
  from ZDNet
  
  Google to remain default search engine in Firefox for the next three years.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 01:51:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Starts with a comparison of #Firefox market share and the pay of #Mozilla's top executive

I did not search for it, but around the time they laid off 1/4 of their workforce, I thought I saw something about some pay reductions for their top management.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-assessment-of-mozilla/

My personal assessment is this: as the browser started picking up share, they also picked up a patron (Google) that seemed to provide unlimited funding. It was during this period that all the "privacy NGO" ideas started, because they had more than enough money for their main projects and decided they'd spend the rest "doing good".

I can't fault them for that. But I do think that Mozilla's current state is pretty closely related to having "grown up" with unlimited money to spend on tangentially related projects.

At some point, Google decided that their interests were better served with an owned-and-controlled browser, and the rest is history.

There's always the hope that Mozilla will open up more Firefox and #Thunderbird development to non-paid programmers and start asking its users to optionally contribute financially. This could help, but there still needs to be a soul-searching that asks whether they are a group that develops a browser and a mail client or some sort of generic web and privacy advocacy group that just happens to develop those applications.

Those are two different roads, and with a much more constrained income stream, they can't be both at once any more.
In conversation Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 01:51:13 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%
  
  from calpaterson.com
  
  Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
2. This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla
  
  Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400% Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people. That's a quarter of their workforce so there are some deep cuts to their work too. The victims include: the MDN docs (those are the web standards docs everyone likes better than w3schools), the Rust compiler and even some cuts to Firefox development. Like
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 01:27:38 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
in reply to
- Douglas A. Whitfield
Just reading an article about #Mozilla's out-of-control administration costs and see some grumbles about #Wikimedia / #Wikipedia there also. http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
In conversation Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 01:27:38 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%
  
  from calpaterson.com
  
  Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 04:21:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

The thought occurs to me that with #Mozilla laying off about 1/4 of its workforce, they may not be able to keep https://ssl-config-mozilla.org/ updated. That would be a tragedy.
In conversation Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 04:21:42 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2020 20:59:45 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Why #Mozilla removed #XUL add-ons from #Firefox https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/
In conversation Thursday, 20-Aug-2020 20:59:45 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
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1. Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons?
  
  During the past few days, I’ve been chatting with Firefox users, trying to separate fact from rumor regarding the consequences of the August 2020 Mozilla layoffs. One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during the move to Firefox Quantum. I was very surprised to see that, years after it happened, some community members still felt hurt by this choice. And then, as someone pointed out on reddit, I realized that we still haven’t taken the time to explain in-depth why we had no choice but to remove XUL-based add-ons. So, if you’re ready for a dive into some of the internals of add-ons and Gecko, I’d like to take this opportunity to try and give you a bit more detail.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 20:43:43 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
in reply to
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
When I write these things, I’m not trying to condemn #Mozilla. Once their primary funder also became their primary competitor, the handwriting was on the wall.

Unless a new fiscal beneficiary suddenly appears or one of these money-making products catches on, their future is bleak. Probably the last hope is to make Firefox code understandable enough that the user community can take over maintenance and keep the browser going.

In conversation Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 20:43:43 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 20:40:20 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
in reply to
- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
The decisions that #Mozilla made in their search for more money have not made things better, either. They integrated #Pocket into Firefox and eventually purchased Pocket, but privacy-aware people have always considered Pocket and similar software to be dangerous. Thus, “use Firefox, the privacy-oriented browser” becomes “avoid Firefox unless you turn off their data-collection and Pocket” ... and its refusal to integrate ad-blocking leads to Brave and similar browsers’ ability to brag about their integrated ad-blocking, despite their own privacy flaws. (They did recently turn on enhanced tracking-blocking, but they’re behind the Apple and some others on this.)

In conversation Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 20:40:20 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink

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