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Funny enough I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for well over a decade, but lately I've struggled to continue letting that remain the case just because of how badly managed Mozilla appears to be.

The weird AI website builder thing they released was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. Besides my many objections to current AI, my bigger issue was that this demonstrated a general lack of focus and carelessness on their part.



That seems like an odd reason to not use a browser, especially considering how the company that makes the dominant browser is also a mess.


I mean, mess is a bit subjective in Google's case. Sure, they tend to take on a lot of side-projects only to inevitably abandon them, and they did slip behind in the AI race, but there's a huge difference between "stagnant giant with way too much money" messy and "if our browser market share gets any lower government websites won't support our browser" messy.


Mozilla is badly managed[1], at least from the perspective of users and developers.

Nobody outside of the executives can possibly say Mozilla is well managed with a straight face when they fire hundreds of developers and then turn around and pay their CEO /seven million fucking dollars/[2], all the while Firefox continues to slip further into irrelevance.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...

[2]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990...




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