cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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    2 months ago

    Everytime I see comments regarding Mozilla’'s financials,I have the same effing question: How does a company like brave or opera maintain their browser ?? AFAIK both don’t have the level of community backing that Mozilla does nor do they have any (again AFAIK) agreement with a company like google for default search engine placement

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      2 months ago

      They use chromium.

      Firefox does not.

      The grand majority of software engineering effort goes into the browser development that they never have to work on for the most part.

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      2 months ago

      Brave just tries to scam their users for money.

      Like when they added “donate to the content creator” links on YouTube and such, then didn’t actually give the money to the content creators.

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      2 months ago

      BTW, about Opera - the newest events with OpenAI and other stuff and Winamp devs not being prosecuted for GPL violations all lead me to one thought.

      Are leaked Presto sources really-really illegal to use?