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Longtime Mozilla leader Mitchell Baker is now CEO
Baker has been the interim CEO of the Firefox browser maker since December 2019.
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Meet Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's permanent CEO.
James Martin/CNET
On Wednesday, Mozilla chair and longtime leader Mitchell Baker was named permanent CEO of the company that makes the Firefox web browser.
Mitchell became interim CEO of Mozilla in December 2019 after former CEO Chris Beard resigned. The company conducted an external candidate search over the last eight months, and concluded the Mitchell is the right leader for Mozilla at this time, according to a company blog post published Wednesday.
"Increasingly, numbers of people recognize that the internet needs attention," Baker said in another Mozilla blog post Wednesday. "Mozilla has a special, if not unique role to play here. It's time to tune our existing assets to meet the challenge. It's time to make use of Mozilla's ingenuity and unbelievable technical depth and understanding of the 'web' platform to make new products and experiences. It's time to gather with others who want these things and work together to make them real."
Mozilla has been prioritizing issues like privacy protection and fighting surveillance online, and has been expanding into areas like password management, file sharing and private network connections. In January, the company laid off 70 employees as part of the effort to move to those priorities.
In February, Firefox enabled new privacy features in the US to make it more difficult for ISPs or others to track users online. In April, it made an update to its search bar to improve productivity.
 
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I used to religiously use Firefox, but two recent things prompted me to switch. The first was when they pushed you to create an account, ostensibly so you could share your bookmarks and other info across your devices, except...it didn't work, and if you log out of your account, Firefox spams you with notifications to log back in to "enhance your browser experience."

The second: I got a new phone not too long ago and decided to install their mobile browser just to see if it was an upgrade on the default phone browser (and because I wanted an ad blocker). Firefox mobile chugs like a frat boy at a beer garden, will randomly jump up and down web pages if I so much as think about touching my screen, and burns through my battery at an absurd rate. I uninstalled it after a couple of days and just switched to using Chrome mobile because at least that doesn't force me to charge my phone multiple times a day.

Brave, on the other hand, has been performing nicely so far.
 
I switched from Firefox to Brave when everyone on this very website started bitching about a Firefox update breaking all their plugins; which seemed to be around the same time Mozilla shit-canned the guy who went on to make Brave because he wasn't woke enough.

It's pretty neat, but I miss the versatility of NoScript versus Brave's all-or-nothing approach to blocking scripts.
 
I'm still using Firefox because I give Google enough of my info, let alone use a Chromium fork.

Google can go suck a tranny cock, they fucking suck.
 
Harvey Danger said:
Mozilla is still installed for the sole purpose of occasional website debugging, to see if a user's problem is a Chrome/Edge issue.
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Not in my job it isn't. Everyone is more dependent on Internet Explorer because its literally the only browser that some company related sites will ONLY work on. So if anyone is having a website issue, we have then switch back between chrome or IE. Nobody even knows anything about firefox.

Your Weird Fetish said:
Fugg what do I do now? Waterfox is shit.
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A detailed list of browser comparisons and how to configure a couple of them to make the experience better.
Another browser recommendation list. This one seems to like Pale Moon a lot, but furry browser aside, this person also dissects each browser in detail
Also if anyone is interested in Mozilla's history, here's a link explaining why Mozilla and Firefox are bad
For advanced users, how to test a browser for spyware
 
SSF2T Old User said:
Not in my job it isn't. Everyone is more dependent on Internet Explorer because its literally the only browser that some company related sites will ONLY work on. So if anyone is having a website issue, we have then switch back between chrome or IE. Nobody even knows anything about firefox.



A detailed list of browser comparisons and how to configure a couple of them to make the experience better.
Another browser recommendation list. This one seems to like Pale Moon a lot, but furry browser aside, this person also dissects each browser in detail
Also if anyone is interested in Mozilla's history, here's a link explaining why Mozilla and Firefox are bad
For advanced users, how to test a browser for spyware
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Yet you don't mention that the site says Brave is rated on high spyware, nor the spyware mitigation guide listed on the Firefox page.

I thought we were supposed to be anti-Google, not sucking Google's tranny dick.
 
I'm currently using Pale Moon myself since it forked out from Firefox back when it was still a good browser. Works great, and somehow despite websites blaring my browser isn't supported, works fine on them.
 
Stoneheart said:
I dont know, the steps look promising, maybe the will build in an ad blocker.
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No 'Mozilla' organization is seriously trying to build a working web browser.

They care about:
exploring strategies and tools to enhance collaboration between governments, civil society, and the private sector, leading to a better understanding and management of security risks associated with harmful online content, such as hate speech
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[working] with the Anti-Defamation League [to suppress freedom of speech]...
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and fund
trans-feminist queer filmmaker and [researchers]
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Mozilla as an organization is an enemy of the human race.
 
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