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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s used for the Firefox brand of products

where?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Two of these have since been discontinued, one is a Have I Been Pwned reskin. Poor Mozilla, struggling to find alternative revenue sources to cut its Google dependence.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly they should take notes from the Wikimedia Foundation. While they are funded by donations, Wikimedia created a trust that will ensure, without hyperbole, that they never run out of cash

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I assume that developing and maintaining a browser with its own HTML/JS/CSS engine is orders of magnitude more expensive than running Wikipedia's servers though. There's a reason why all other browser companies (except Apple) are all building on top of Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk they could also pay the CEO less money too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of freedom hating pinko talk is that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know what she does day to day, but Firefox usage is going down the toilet and the rest of Mozilla seems mismanaged. Maybe decreasing her salary and hiring some more engineers might help. Right now Google seems to be keeping Mozilla alive to prove that they supposedly aren't a monopoly. Now she did join after the user trend was already plummeting, but idk $3+ mil is a lot of money to not turn the ship around.

It would just be nice to have an actual chromium competitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

3 million is a pretty low salary for a CEO of any large company. I get so tired of people shitting on Firefox for this. Can we please give this a rest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wikimedia has a similar head count as far as I know, and the CEO is paid significantly less, which is what we were talking about. Mozilla is in a really bad position right now, so that's why people bring this up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

3 million is a pretty high salary for anyone. Lower all their salaries. Eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_logo

Scroll down to the "Transition to overarching identity and simplicity (2018–present)" section under history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

On their website. Site header has no fox, browser has a fox.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/