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.

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.”

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    We’re talking something like 500 full-time devs currently working on Firefox vs. a handful of unpaid volunteers working on the forks.

    So, they might survive, but they won’t make a ton of progress. And security vulnerabilities would become increasingly difficult to keep fixing.