[greyfox]

"With Firefox succumbing this week..."

Firefox succumbed to what? Genuinely curious, i had not heard this.

[pdmccormick]

There were a large number of layoffs at Mozilla, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336 .

[dmitryminkovsky]

And strategic re-orientation as I understood it.

[Ygg2]

Same way you strategically deprive someone from food and they reorient to a coffin user.

Explanation: Google undermined FireFox, both through ads, then through a series of incompatibilities.

And they did the same to Edge, which is using Chromium.

[outworlder]

Given the caliber of the talent that was let go, this re-orientation sounds more like a lobotomy.

[noble_pleb]

That's exactly what any CEO or "Downsizing Consultant" would say. That may be an OK situation for a corporate company, but for a non-profit foundation like Mozilla, its unhealthy and rings some disaster bells.

[whywhywhywhy]

Too many overpaid people who had little interest in building a web browser.