Mozilla is in news again but not what you expected.
Mozilla has recently lay off 250employees, 25% of its workforce. It also closed operations in Taipei, Taiwan.
The Taiwanese team was performing on Firefox Lite.
This is not the primary layoff from
Mozilla this year. At the start of the year, Mozilla had laid off 70 employees.
So, what’s happening with
Mozilla? Whatever it's , it’s never positive.
Mozilla has fired entire (or most
of) teams performing on DevTools, MDN, developer relation, Servo (browser
engine written in Rust) and incident threat management.
Why did it do that? What lies
ahead for Mozilla? Here’s my opinion on the Mozilla crisis.
The Gradual decline of Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox once had an
honest user base. it had been seen as a superior browser and it seemed like it
might dethrone Internet Explorer because the hottest browser.
That would have happened if it
had been not for Google Chrome. By that time Google lunched Chrome in 2008
Their aim was to urge more and more
people to use their program. How does a user access search engine? Through an
internet browser.
So, rather than being hooked in
to other web browsers, Google created its own browser and integrated its
products with this new browser. Google hired several Mozilla engineers to
figure on its browser. the present Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, led the team
developing the Chrome browser.
But Google did not just finished after creating Chrome in 2008. Google with all their technical and intelligence, kept on moving to improve the browser.
Soon Google Chrome overtook
Firefox and later Internet Explorer to become the foremost popular browser.
But what happened to Mozilla
Firefox? it's my opinion that Mozilla lost specialise in the Firefox browser.
They put time and energy in creating Firefox mobile OS, Rust programing language,
Hello video chat application and more.
It’s not that it didn’t add new features there, it’s just that Firefox started losing charm.
Chrome had a faster experience
while Firefox felt sluggish and heavy. Google’s evil practice of deliberately
slowing down Google products like YouTube on Firefox also made users dump
Firefox.
Whatever it’s. The reality is
that Google Chrome may be a superior product otherwise people won’t go
installing it on their own. Microsoft couldn’t keep Windows users on Internet
Explorer/Edge in any case.
Mozilla Moved On for Money
Mozilla Foundation may be a
not-for-profit organization but it also has taxable subsidiary within the sort
of Mozilla Corporation. Firefox browser is developed under Mozilla Foundation.
The profit earned by the Mozilla Corporation is reinvested into Mozilla
projects.
Lately, Mozilla is trying hard to
make new revenue channels to finish its reliance on Google. Its acquisition ofPocket app and therefore the launch of Mozilla VPN is a component of this
strategy.
The recent layoffs also are a
part of Mozilla’s new strategy to specialize in profitable products and
reducing the workforce aimed toward reducing the expense.
Despite the fact, the company
must not abort Firefox. People need a functioning browser and Mozilla should
work on improving user experience. If the users have trouble running Netflix or
YouTube or using other streaming services during this age, they're going to
definitely switch.
Not only it's the flagship project
from Mozilla, it's also the most important hope for people that don’t want
Google. Microsoft’s Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave and most of the opposite
popular browsers have switched to Google’s Chromium project. Firefox is one
among the rare browsers that doesn’t believe Chromium.
I hope that Mozilla rises from
the ashes sort of a Phoenix.
Those were my views on the
Mozilla situation. I welcome yours within the comment section.
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