This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

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.”

  • panicnow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I get not wanting to use a google, microsoft or crypto laden browser, but I would be willing to use a well supported browser that used chromium as the page rendering engine. It seems to be extremely difficult to get another engine to be competitive in the marketplace. Maybe the resources would be better spent putting the chromium engine inside a different container. I’m sure there would be drawbacks, but I think there would be compatibility benefits too.

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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      16 minutes ago

      used chromium as the page rendering engine.

      I believe WebKit is Chromium’s rendering engine, as is Gecko for Firefox.

      Opera used to have their own but now they’re just rebranded Chromium.