Business Longtime Mozilla leader Mitchell Baker is now CEO

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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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April 8, 2020 9:48 a.m. PT
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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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FlappyBat said:
I dont exactly trust Microsoft to act as a counter balance to Google.
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Microsoft gave up on their own browser engine in Edge and switched it to Chromium. They are a counter balance to nothing.

BTW that article is doubly hilarious because it literally says "here's why that's a good thing" in the headline like every good soyboy article should.
 
moocow said:
Microsoft gave up on their own browser engine in Edge and switched it to Chromium. They are a counter balance to nothing.
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They had good reason to do that. Actually it's ironic, Microsoft is known for making their own broken standards that don't conform to other standards. Then they conform to a standard and people still complain. Which one do you want? Do you want organizations to tell you their website only works in Edge like it did for IE or do you want them to say it supports all major browsers because they all now confirm to Chromium's single standard? Pick one already.
MS was trying really hard for a while to make Edge work exactly like Chromium. It's not like they "gave up", it's that they realized they were duplicating work, and this is the new MS, where they embrace open software and standards instead of spitting in the face of it. So instead of literally remaking Chromium, which is what they were doing, they just decided it would be easier, faster, more productive, and less fragmenting to just use Chromium.
It's even better than having their own browser now, because instead of Edge and Chrome having to make sure they both don't stagnate or do dumb shit, now it's MS directly ensuring the Chromium project doesn't end up doing any stupid shit. And if you're not aware, when MS gets into a third-party open source project, they actually get pretty organized with it. It's not like they're just leeching off it, they're probably establishing themselves as second to Google in it now.

I was pretty upset when they dumped Trident/Chakra at first, too. But, seriously, they were literally just making Chromium, even supporting the same plugins. It's literally just duplicate work for no reason.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Then what the fuck should I use after everyone told me to stop using Internet Explorer and Firefox?

RIP Netscape Navigator
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Brave is good. Although, Pale Moon is fine too. K-Meleon if you want a nice proper Windows UI (some cool dudes in the community even made a version that works with modern SSL standards on Windows 98).
 
Super-Chevy454 said:
Am I the only one who think then Firefox will be abandonned like Flash?
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Quite frankly I'm surprised it's still around. Even more so because they're rewriting the entire thing piece-by-piece, I can't imagine the costs for that. It's taken years and they're not even done yet. And their new Servo renderer still works like dogshit, even worse than Trident.
 
vertexwindi said:
I switched from FireFox because it was starting to feel slow and shit, and I'm pretty happy.
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Firefox build times have gone through the roof since they started using meme language Rust.
The Fool said:
Quite frankly I'm surprised it's still around.
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Pretty sure Google only keeps it around in case the DOJ start snooping around for a browser monopoly.
 
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