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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch(techcrunch.com)

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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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snowcrushed573@lemmy.world
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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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douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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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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sibachian@lemmy.ml
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those are just rebranded chrome(ium). all browsers except firefox and safari are rebranded chromium or firefox. edit: there are some other projects but none are mature.

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tb_@lemmy.world
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Apple also maintains their own browser engine, but that’s Apple.

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sibachian@lemmy.ml
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yes, safari is apple.

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Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Brave and Opera are both forks of Chromium that incorporate upstream changes. Firefox is an entire browser.

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snowcrushed573@lemmy.world
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Fair enough. Didn’t think that maintaining the engine is what Mozilla spends majority of it’s Firefox budget on

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douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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The grand majority of Mozilla’s spending is for engineers.

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fatalicus@lemmy.world
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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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rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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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?

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morrowind@lemmy.ml
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Alongside what the other guy said, Opera definitely does have search engine deals, idk about brave since they launched their own. But brave has their own private advertising system

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