[miki_oomiri]

90% of 2010’s Mozilla employees are gone. Most core employees are gone. Most Firefox-era developers are gone.

Most PM and directors were brought in after firefox got big.

They can’t even find a CEO.

The people who made Mozilla great are now working somewhere else.

[kleranc]

Yes, this is another example how foundation directors and CEOs profit from OSS while ruining the organization.

One wonders if that is the overarching strategy of those who fund OSS.

[I_AM_A_SMURF]

where somewhere else = Google

[matheusmoreira]

That's incredibly sad. I wish those people had forked Firefox and created their own company to rival Mozilla. I would have switched.

[alternatex]

There is Zen browser, which is a fork of Firefox. Though no idea who's developing it.

[tumsfestival]

A bunch of randos, which doesn't really inspire much confidence.

[drak0n1c]

One did. Brave browser.

[fyrn_]

Isn't brave just a chromium flavor?

[matheusmoreira]

It is. At least they're not forcing the controversial changes such as Manifest V3 onto their users.

[Daedren]

They very much are. V3 support comes with Chromium, and once Google removes V2 from the codebase they'll have to abide.

The difference is that it's less impactful since it has a near uBO-level blocker built-in to the browser.

[matheusmoreira]

> The difference is that it's less impactful since it has a near uBO-level blocker built-in to the browser.

I think that's the right thing to do. Honestly V3 is pretty reasonable. It's just that uBlock Origin is so important and trusted it should be an exception. It should be built into the browser, only conflicts of interest prevent this. Can't trust an ad company to maintain an ad blocker.

[soundnote]

Brave did start on Gecko, but migrated to Chromium.