Mozilla fires 60 people to “focus on bringing ‘trustworthy AI into Firefox.’”
Fuck you, Mozilla. No one is asking for AI in Firefox. Sadly, you’re the best we can hope for under capitalism. So if we want something better, we should look into alternative models.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/
We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.
We have integrated Mastodon as a Web panel into Vivaldi.
We include links to Vivaldi Social into Vivaldi.
We also work on integrating our blogs and forums into the Fediverse.
We hope others will follow. Mozilla has talked a lot and we hope they will join us fully soon.
#Vivaldi #browser #Mozilla #Linux #Windows #Android #iOS #Macos #fediverse #Mastodon
"Immediately, upon his return, Mozilla campaigned to demote or terminate Mr Teixeira citing groundless concerns and assumptions about his capabilities as an individual living with cancer,"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/24/mozilla_product_chief_sues_over/
Kudos to #Mozilla for defying #Russia's ban on #Firefox extensions that help Russian users bypass Russian #censorship.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/mozilla_firefox_russia/
Apple just released a Chromium/Safari version of Apple Maps. I wonder if they are planning on making a web version as well.
So Mozilla has apparently just reconsidered their stance on JPEG XL! That is, going from ‘nope lol’ to ‘rust ftw lol’. Which reads like a rather ungraceful turnaround, but it is a turnaround, so… kudos to Mozilla for correcting some of their wrongs! 
(They say the requirement is for memory safety, which seems fair enough, but I do wonder why they needed three freaking years just to decide this was their main concern. Yay for efficiency, I guess.) 
#lang_en #browsers #codecs #Firefox #formats #images #JPEG_XL #JXL #Mozilla #news #technology #web #WWW
Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )
Just a quick comparison between @Vivaldi and @mozilla Mastodon profiles.
Vivaldi vs Mozilla
- 3000+ vs 87 posts
- 21 vs 14 months old
- ~ 21 thousand vs ~ 29 thousand followers
The last revenue of Mozilla that I found is of the order of USD 400+ million, while Vivaldi Technologies seems to have 10 to 100 times less on revenue. And Vivaldi browser has direct integration with Mastodon.
Quite intriguing.
Mozilla's instance was never a project. I think we can't even call it an experiment. At most a joke.
📢 Vivaldi Social has never been an experiment!
Hosting our own instance is one of our efforts in the fight for a better web.
Actions speak louder than words, but in case you needed some reassurance today: we’re here for the long run. 
