I love Firefox as a browser but we should be realistic about the fact that Mozilla has orders of magnitude less resources than the three other companies behind the other browsers: Google, Microsoft and Apple.
I don't know most of the projects you listed. I don't know the full story and can't presume to know it but maybe they were stretched too thin trying to tackle all of those things.
Browser adoption was surely limited by Chrome's appearance and likely (even though most end users don't know about it), the difficulties of embedding Firefox or using it as a developer platform.
At the same time though Mozilla is working on or has worked on really cool stuff like Rust, WebAssembly and VR technologies.
Today, the majority of Mozilla Corporation revenue is generated from global browser search partnerships, including the deal negotiated with Google in 2017 following Mozilla’s termination of its search agreement with Yahoo/Oath (which was the subject of litigation the parties resolved in 2019.)
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In CY 2018, Mozilla Corporation generated $435.702 million from royalties, subscriptions and advertising revenue compared to $542 million in CY 2017. 2017 was an outlier, due in part to changes in the search revenue deal that was negotiated that year.
don't know how the 2019 went, but the fact they let go 70 people in 2020 might mean it didn't go as they expected. Or it might mean they decided to stop focusing on so many things at the time.
I'm still optimistic, I don't think the goal is to have Firefox become the most popular browser, that ship has probably sailed but Mozilla can keep innovating and building a really good product :)
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If you check the rest of the blogpost you can find more information but yes Mozilla worked on those technologies but doesn't have the same effect like other companies.
My idea was to show how mozilla kill projects to switch on other things and later competitors or other community doesn the same things better maybe with less volunteers then mozilla has.
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I love Firefox as a browser but we should be realistic about the fact that Mozilla has orders of magnitude less resources than the three other companies behind the other browsers: Google, Microsoft and Apple.
I don't know most of the projects you listed. I don't know the full story and can't presume to know it but maybe they were stretched too thin trying to tackle all of those things.
Browser adoption was surely limited by Chrome's appearance and likely (even though most end users don't know about it), the difficulties of embedding Firefox or using it as a developer platform.
At the same time though Mozilla is working on or has worked on really cool stuff like Rust, WebAssembly and VR technologies.
and
don't know how the 2019 went, but the fact they let go 70 people in 2020 might mean it didn't go as they expected. Or it might mean they decided to stop focusing on so many things at the time.
I'm still optimistic, I don't think the goal is to have Firefox become the most popular browser, that ship has probably sailed but Mozilla can keep innovating and building a really good product :)
If you check the rest of the blogpost you can find more information but yes Mozilla worked on those technologies but doesn't have the same effect like other companies.
My idea was to show how mozilla kill projects to switch on other things and later competitors or other community doesn the same things better maybe with less volunteers then mozilla has.