Mitchelle Baker, CEO of Mozilla since 2020, will transition back to executive chairwoman role. Baker had been executive chairwoman for several decades. Board member Laura Chambers is taking over as interim CEO. Second source; The Verge

  • LunchOP
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    1122 years ago

    Rooting for a Firefox focused 2024! 🦊

  • Engywook
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    362 years ago

    First good news from Mozilla since at least a couple of years.

    • HACKthePRISONS
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      732 years ago

      the thunderbird rewrite, the acquisition of k-9, the integration of outlook, the launch of mozilla.social, and saving thunderbird settings on the cloud (formerly firefox account, now mozilla account) are all things happening in the last year.

      i think mozilla has been kickin ass.

      • @[email protected]
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        172 years ago

        You’re talking about Thunderbird, a project they basically abandoned to the community. Thunderbird survives in spite of Mozilla, not because of it. Meanwhile their main product Firefox is still bleeding users down into the single digit percentages while receiving half a billion a year from Google. It takes a lot of skill to run such a company so deep into the ground.

          • LunchOP
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            Mozilla has a podcast?

            Edit: Yes they have! https://irlpodcast.org/

            Assuming you meant that they talked about this topic in one of their podcasts? Would you mind sharing which episode they did that in?

      • Engywook
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        82 years ago

        Isn’t Thunderbird developed externally and not a Mozilla product? It appears so, from Wikipedia. Same thus for K9. OTOH, I blocked mozilla.social and obviously didn’t want anything to do with Mozilla, so I also deleted my Mozilla accoubt in 2021. As far I am concerned, they could disappear tomorrow and my life would change exactly 0. I’m only happy that the incompetent CEO is gone. She was able to destroy Firefox.

          • Engywook
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            32 years ago

            No, sorry, I won’t. A lot of Mozilla’s fans would reply trying to convince me I’m wrong or just insulting me (it already happened). I’m not interested in engaging on this topic.

            • @[email protected]
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              272 years ago

              It would have been better to simply not reply, rather than this woe-is-me persecution complex thing.

            • @[email protected]
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              If you aren’t interested in engaging on this topic then why not delete your comments on this topic and stop replying on this topic. Your comment’s logic is ridiculous.

        • HACKthePRISONS
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          72 years ago

          Thunderbird is part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. Portions of this content are ©1998–2023 by individual contributors. Content available under a Creative Commons license.

          https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

          • Engywook
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            82 years ago

            “Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird Community.”

        • HACKthePRISONS
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          72 years ago

          i just dont understand people who only have criticisms of them. no one is perfect but its not as though they only do bad things.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    This feels like shuffling deck chairs on the titanic.

    A board member and the CEO swap roles… The core leadership group remains intact

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        She presided over a massively shrinking market share of Firefox, adding proprietary bloat like pocket, wasted huge amounts of effort on weird shit like Mozilla’s own half baked metaverse, while quadrupling her own salary. The kind of stuff you expect from a lawyer.

        The entire board needs to be replaced with people that actually know how to program.

        • Sybil
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          22 years ago

          thank you. I asked a few people and no one had any answers.

  • m-p{3}
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    62 years ago

    I don’t know how Mitchelle Baker was so I won’t comment on her performance, but I hope this change of direction will lead Mozilla to a brighter future, and a more privacy-focused web for all of us.