Hasn't firefox been defunded and likely to no have a future?

dredmorbius · on Aug 23, 2020

No.

"Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions"

Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now and 2023 from the arrangement, citing internal discussions held earlier this year.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24156813

Scarbutt · on Aug 23, 2020

Yes. That doesn't mean that money will go to Firefox.

xigency · on Aug 22, 2020

As far as I can tell they canned most of the Firefox teams driving new features, so that’s how I read the situation.

Aeolun · on Aug 23, 2020

It’s interesting how those teams have finally been able to pull Firefox out of freefall, only to be sacked.

viraptor · on Aug 23, 2020

They dropped some side teams, but the deal with Google that we thought wasn't happening actually happened a bit later. They're still good. They had future regardless, it's not the end of the world for them to run a bit more lean.

submeta · on Aug 22, 2020

If that was the case I‘d fall back to Safari. Even though my browsing experience wouldn’t be the same anymore (using a dozen addons in Firefox).

hackstack · on Aug 23, 2020

I believe the upcoming version of Safari will have WebExtension support, so at least there's that.