Mozilla Firefox Is Dying

18 points

10 months ago

We are undoubtedly witnessing a rapid decline of Mozilla and its products: the question we should be asking ourselves is: how long before the total collapse? And furthermore: are those Linux users (like me) who are still relying on Firefox for doing their development job ready to abandon it?

Let me list at least three facts to support my thesis:

1) Over the past year, there have been various controversies announcing a radical change in the core values of the Mozilla Foundation

2) After its rewrite (Project Fenix), the Firefox Mobile browser has never regained the completeness it had before, despite the passage of years

3) One of the web extensions developed by Mozilla (and marked as “official”) was recently removed from the store because it violated Mozilla's own add-on policies: this suggests serious internal disputes.

I wonder what is your opinion

[1] https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/111usm9/years_after_fenix_release_of_android_browser/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked-addon/%7B6003eac6-4b07-4aaf-960b-92fa006cd444%7D/3.0.1/

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