A succinct description of what's wrong with #Mozilla

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%

Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.

Maybe it's time to replace the entire board at #Mozilla

Clearly, the project doesn't have competent leadership or else there's no way that an org which receives enough yearly funding to launch its own space program is floundering

@cypnk What can be done when the default web browser on every Android device is Chrome and it's the primary OS of the world? It's a shameful state we're in. There are too many people asking on a daily basis how to wedge in a Google application into their *Linux* install which steals all of their freedom.

Mozilla's board is certainly due to be replaced but there is such a bigger issue to be addressed here and it's as old as the browser itself.

@John I wish I had good answers to that, but it's a complex problem. Made worse by years of complacency during the IE vs FF era.

Mozilla objectively had a superior browser at the time and behaved as Microsoft did with Netscape and now they're playing catch up. It may be a matter of a third player coming into the scene, now that IE will also be Chrome-based

Maybe the next battleground won't be just the web, but streaming services and games. A new browser as a platform for interactive media

@cypnk i personally think their privacy focus might win the battle as there has to be a leak coming that makes people wake up... finally, hopefully? Maybe. They need to keep working on this and pushing forward.
@John Fingers crossed that enough people within the org wake up to what they really should be doing. Worst case, I see another foundation popping up to take their place