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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apple also maintains their own browser engine, but that's Apple.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah, I guess I read over the first bit to where you mentioned the rebrands, which didn't include Safari.

To still add some useful information: all browsers on iOS are rebranded Safari, because Apple only permits their own browser engine.

(The EU ruling may change this, however)

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