Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?
Enshitification incoming.
A New Chapter For Mozilla
Submitted 9 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-laura-chambers-expanded-role/
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JustZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
darganon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’re going to screw their business customers to claw back value for themselves?
davidgro@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hadn’t yet really started on the users, so we’ll be getting it first
seaQueue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Any bets on which horrible technology fad this one hitches Mozilla’s horse to and spends all their money on?
cloudless@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Pocket Powered by AI.
The browser is going to automatically set a new homepage for you based the hottest topics according to AI analysis.
Dynamic bookmarks is going to add suggested sites and automatically sort your bookmarks based on AI-powered ratings.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Hey if we can bend that out of shape to use the open source model mixtral. I been specifically trying to get locallama to organize my tabs and bookmarks into something usable for a while already.
Sure, the normies get AI advertising but we’ll get to repurpose for our own use.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I bet it’s Automated Irrigation, also known as AI.
ikidd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Artificial Insemination. Which was probably the first AI.
LibreFish@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Doubling down on our core products, like Firefox
Expected them to double down on Google tracking, AI, and pocket while laying off Firefox engineers. Still do, but maybe slightly slower now.
JustZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“We will be rewriting our base code, working off of Chromium!”
Flipper@feddit.de 9 months ago
I’d be switching to servo then.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Focus” and “streamline” are usually MBA buzzwords to describe layoffs. Hopefully not the case but sounds rough.
madsen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LibreWolf is a very decent Firefox fork. Open Source is great because bad CEOs can’t really threaten the source code.
Not saying this one is bad though — I have no idea. The last one was raking in $7 million/year which is less than ideal for an open source project.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Open Source is great because bad CEOs can’t really threaten the source code.
Most of the time this is true, but for browser engines it’s different because of their sheer size, complexity, need to adhere and collaborate with others to form web standards, need for security experts, day one vulnerability patches, etc.
If Mozilla dies, LibreWolf can’t just pick up the slack. They die too. Volunteers alone can’t run a modern web engine, it takes hundreds of millions per year to upkeep.
It’s probably more expensive to maintain a browser engine than a full operating system at this point.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
I’ll never understand why Microsoft dropped their engine. They can afford to develop it and it would’ve been a great advantage vs Google. I mean, it wouldn’t have helped open source folk either way, but I just don’t get why they dropped it.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Perhaps we should take the clue and - if we also see clues of Mozilla enshittifying - switch globally to an easier internet that’s also easier to program for. Something like Gemini (the post-Gopher thingy, not Google’s latest fad) for example, where I take it maintaining a browser is nowhere near the same order of magnitude as complex.
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wish more distro’s packaged librewolf. I know there’s an appimage and such but I prefer native tested packages where possible.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Doubling down on our core products, like Firefox
Well, I sure fucking hope so. When are we getting back XUL addons or something comparable, you know, the feature that made your browser stand out?
(One can dream, right? Hahaha)
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
The reason that Firefox sucked ass for so long in speed and features was because xul was an unbeatable burden to maintain. Also, firefoxs extensions are still the most powerful out of any browser
madis@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Indeed, they don’t have to bring back the XUL. The power users would just appreciate…
- new extension APIs that interact with the browser UI
- bring back toolbar customization that was removed for no reason (we can’t even move the extension button at this point…)
- bring back (start supporting again) compact mode and better themes
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Doubling is nowhere near enough, they need to Quintuple down on that shit
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Remember when Mozilla the company had a product named Mozilla?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 months ago
OK, apart from the management bullshit lingo of the article, has anyone an idea what is going to happen?
treadful@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Obviously they’re going to be building platforms that accelerate momentum.
ikidd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And synergize. We’ll loop back and reach out in a couple years.
1984@lemmy.today 9 months ago
This is how I read it also… Scroll-scroll… Bullshit statements, scroll, marketing, marketing, self congratulaty shit, marketing, scroll, scroll…
Where does it say what they are going to actually do??
Scroll, scroll, scroll, give up, post on Lemmy. :)
small44@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nothing concrete was said.
boolean@kbin.social 9 months ago
“interim” CEO…
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I think Mozilla could use a new CEO and I want to be optimistic. That said:
ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yep. Not a single non-profit or open-source related position in her CV
Contend6248@feddit.de 9 months ago
You gotta start somewhere, just give her a chance, we’ll see if she fucks up or not
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve known Mozilla being great wouldn’t last forever, and there it is. Someone from those companies at the helm? Here comes the enshitification.
treadful@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Hard to say. You kind of want someone that was part of a successful product. And successful for-profit products are almost always menaces.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
We can version freeze forever. Anything that won’t work in 2023 firefox is probably trash anyway.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Yeah the Airbnb, PayPal, eBay pedigree has me more concerned than anything. I wouldn’t want any of Mozilla’s stuff to be anything close to these things.
0x2d@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
what happened with ebay?
olorin99@kbin.earth 9 months ago
Well there was this thing. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/29/ebay-executive-sentenced-couple-harassment-newsletter
ikidd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
eBay banned NFTs, I’m onboard with eBay.