Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money - The Verge 📦

33    12 Aug 2020 09:36 by u/0xdeadbeef

from @MichalPurzynski on [Nitter](https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657#m) "Terribly mismanaged by Mitchell Baker Mozilla laid off more than 250 best people I’ve ever been working with This is a very different Mozilla now" && "They killed entire threat management team. Mozilla is now without detection and incident response." ---------------------------- Would be wise to watch Mozilla very closely for the time being. Tor users beware: their browser is a large part of the Tor browser bundle, and they allegedly laid off their entire threat management team.

11 comments

6 u/None 12 Aug 2020 10:35
What should I be switching to? I don’t trust chrome or chromium
2 u/Pogchampkingv2 12 Aug 2020 10:56
Try ungoogled chromium or tor
2 u/0xdeadbeef [OP] 12 Aug 2020 10:58
Most browsers that I would recommend tend to be forks of firefox or chromium. Those that aren't forks of those two projects and non proprietary that I know of are konqueror and midori. Or lynx, lol. They may be worth checking out, but I don't have enough experience with them to really make a judgement.
2 u/None 12 Aug 2020 12:05
Using midori now, it's incredibly lightweight. With about a dozen tabs open it uses 20MB of RAM. Too bad theres no way to block youtube ads
2 u/0xdeadbeef [OP] 12 Aug 2020 12:23
I looked it up, and it does look like midori comes with an adblock extension preinstalled but disabled by default, found in >Preferences>Extensions. Not sure if its on both desktop and mobile versions. Does the enabled adblock not block youtube ads?
2 u/None 12 Aug 2020 12:26
It doesn't block any ads at all actually. I had to use a hosts file to block ads systemwide. Youtube ads are embedded in such a way that they can't be blocked using a domain, there was apparently a greasemonkey addon at some point I could have used to install scripts that block youtube ads, but it was removed for some reason
-4 u/noble_pleb 12 Aug 2020 13:36
Its time to trust chrome, I think. It seems to be better of the two evils because at least we know its evil. Mozilla plays the dual game of foundation+corporation (like good cop, bad cop). We never know whether its the foundation or corporation controlling our browsers due to events like these. I say its time to jump ship for firefox users.
5 u/None 12 Aug 2020 13:52
Still Firefox. Most of peoples concerns can be addressed in settings. Other than google pages (gmail, youtube, etc) loading a bit slower... its at least just as good as any other. Mozilla also has been around for decades.
1 u/avocado_mansion 12 Aug 2020 14:10
midori or netsurf
3 u/None 12 Aug 2020 13:55
funny thing is that the title doesn't really match the story. would be more accurate to say, Mozilla is laying off 250 people to stop losing money. Also to narrow their focus with products. actual press release. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/
0 u/Oberoth 12 Aug 2020 14:13
Gotta ask Sorros for another money donation you left wing scum. Fuck you for ruining the browser i contributed code to and used for over a decade in the sake of you cancerous diversity and left wing ideology GET WOKE GO BROKE!