steven36 Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 By Paul Thurrott Chris Beard announced today that he will step down from his role as Mozilla CEO at the end of 2019, ending a five-year run. “Today our products, technology and policy efforts are stronger and more resonant in the market than ever, and we have built significant new organizational capabilities and financial strength to fuel our work,” he writes in the announcement. “From our new privacy-forward product strategy to initiatives like the State of the Internet we’re ready to seize the tremendous opportunity and challenges ahead to ensure we’re doing even more to put people in control of their connected lives and shape the future of the internet for the public good.” I’m not sure all of that is true: Mozilla’s flagship product, the Firefox web browser, accounts for just 9.4 percent on the desktop, compared to about 15 percent three years ago. (Firefox’s mobile share has actually tripled in the same time frame, but to just 1.3 percent.) But he’s right about much of that: Mozilla’s stance on privacy, in particular, is both right and smart, and it’s even inspired Apple to do the same with its own web browser, Safari. But whatever: Beard is moving on, and he says that Mozilla is “an exceptionally better place today,” and that the fundamentals are in place for continued positive momentum “for years to come.” Beard will step down at the end of 2019, and he says he will assist the firm in finding a replacement. Should that replacement not be named by January 1, Mozilla executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker will step in as interim CEO for the duration. “I want to thank Chris from the bottom of my heart for everything he has done for Mozilla,” Baker wrote in her own post. “Chris’ tenure has seen the development of important organization capabilities and given us a much stronger foundation on which to build. This includes reinvigorating our flagship web browser Firefox to be once again a best-in-class product. It includes recharging our focus on meeting the online security and privacy needs facing people today. And it includes expanding our product offerings beyond the browser to include a suite of privacy and security-focused products and services from Facebook Container and Enhanced Tracking Protection to Firefox Monitor.” It’s not yet clear what Beard will do after he leaves Mozilla, but Baker also noted that he will become an advisor to the Mozilla board. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 The number of Firefox monthly users has declined, gradually and steadily. Over the last two years, it's dipped from about 310 million people to 239 million, according to Mozilla statistics. This represents a decrease of about 23%. In my opinion, Firefox has been completely unusable for almost a year, with almost nothing working or working completely wrong. Also, recent releases have been very unstable, etc. So I've given them a 100% waiver. It just can't be used for nothing. Only the "Dead Fox" is left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BimBamSmash Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Did their extension overhaul had anything to do with their downfall? I recall many devs were pissed about the change - some even claimed to leave the platform altogether because of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 3 hours ago, BimBamSmash said: Did their extension overhaul had anything to do with their downfall? I think it played a part. Plenty of users noticed all of a sudden that they had been updated to the Quantum version and not all of their addons worked as before. That made many angry, and they left for (mostly) Chrome or some Firefox fork that promised to keep compatibility with the old extensions. There were several very popular addons that weren’t ready at the Quantum release, because developers were finding it difficult to keep the same functionality, and several complained about having to use an inferior API. With hindsight, moving to Web extensions was (mostly) a good idea, but the timing was poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halvgris Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 it's so funny because on windows i'd never use firefox since it's too slow but on linux it's fine! it's fast even on low end systems. i used to switch between chrome, opera and firefox whichever was fastest. i think i stopped with opera first, then firefox. now i use chrome since it has the extensions i need. note: privacy fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Om Cracked Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 firefox is to slow then google chrome..number one browser is google chrome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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