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Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay and, somewhat remarkably, its Online Footprint Scrubber, which launched only a week ago. Mozilla will also shut down Hubs, the 3D virtual world it launched back in 2018, and scale back its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance. The layoffs will affect roughly 60 employees. Bloomberg previously reported the layoffs.

Yo, wtf. Their VPN, Relay and Monitor are basically the only Mozilla services I'd use and pay for. To me this sounds like this is the wrong direction. What do you guys think?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I have a bad feeling about this... guess it's time to learn about possible alternatives :/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

You've got WebKit, and Chrome/Chromium. WebKit began as a fork of KDE KHTML, and Chromium then started as a fork of WebKit.

Firefox's Gecko engine is the only other major alternative to those two.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Alternative to what? Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There really aren't any alternatives. Everything else is chromium.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

chromium is based on a fork of webkit; webkit proper does remain -- I don't know how much of an influence google has on it though; all I 'know' is that it's Apple's adoption of a KDE project.