![]() ![]() Mozilla has a "mozilla.social" Mastodon instance that the memo says originally intended to "effectively shape the future of social media," but the company now says the social group will get a "much smaller team." Mozilla says it will also "reduce our investments" in Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay, and something the memo calls "Online Footprint Scrubber" (that sounds like Mozilla Monitor?). ![]() TechCrunch managed to get an internal company memo that details a few "strategic corrections" for the myriad Mozilla products. These non-browser projects could be seen as a search for a less vulnerable revenue stream, but none have put a huge dent in the bottom line. The Mozilla Corporation gets about 80 percent of its revenue from Google-also its primary browser competitor-via a search deal, so Mozilla isn't exactly a healthy company. So you would think focusing on Firefox would be a priority, but the company continually struggles with focus. It's also very important to the web as a whole, as Firefox is the only browser that can't trace its lineage back to Apple and WebKit (Chrome's Blink engine is a WebKit fork. Mozilla is a tiny company that competes with some of the biggest tech companies in the world-Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Not all Mozilla side-projects are losers-the memory-safe Rust programming language was spun out of Mozilla in 2020 and has seen rapid adoption in the Linux kernel and Android. In 2022, Mozilla launched a $35 million venture capital fund called Mozilla Ventures. From 2017–2020, there was "Firefox Send," an encrypted file transfer service, and a VR-focused " Firefox Reality" browser that lasted from 2018 to 2022. ![]() That's not even a comprehensive list of recent Mozilla products. There's Mozilla Monitor (a data breach checker), Mozilla VPN, Pocket (a news reader app), Firefox Relay (for making burner email accounts), and Firefox Focus, a fork of Firefox with a privacy focus. Firefox and Thunderbird have kept on trucking since then, but the /products page is a great example of what the strategy has been lately: "Firefox is just the beginning!" reads the very top of the page it then goes on to detail a lot of projects that aren't in line with Mozilla's core work of making a browser. Mozilla started as the open source browser/email company that rose from the ashes of Netscape. A TechCrunch report has a company memo that followed these layoffs, detailing one product shutdown and a "scaling back" of a few others. Bloomberg was the first to report that the company is cutting about 60 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce. Mozilla got a new "interim" CEO just a few days ago, and the first order of business appears to be layoffs. Arturo Martinez / Flickr reader comments 198 ![]()
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