On: The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

[bigtex]

Was this the beginning of the end?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/brendan-eich-steps-down-...

[jemmyw → bigtex]

Yes absolutely. It didn't need to be, they could have found another CEO with an engineering background. Now it's too late, Mozilla has been "captured", the board is under the control of the person it is responsible for paying. I don't see any out once that's happened, even if the current CEO leaves the next will be the same.

[slig → jemmyw]

Besides being the person responsible for paying, she's the person responsible for the income. Google pays them half a billion a year for a reason.

[pi-e-sigma → slig]

And that reason is to not get in the way of Chrome dominance but pretend that you are trying