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BU508A:
Hello,

I've read today these messages (source, sorry, it's in German):

Security Team:
https://twitter.com/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657
Quote:
They killed entire threat management team. Mozilla is now without detection and incident response.

Tristan, Alicia, Lucius, even our new director are gone

Gecko Team:
https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616
Quote:
To combat some FUD: my Security and Hardening team working on Firefox also appears to have survived.

I conclude that a secure Gecko is still considered key to achieving Mozilla's goals.

I'm happy to still be here. We have key improvements in the pipeline that I want to ship.

Rust engine team / Servo:
https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575
Quote:
Is the project being killed off?

Reportedly the team is gone https://twitter.com/directhex/status/1293352458308198401?s=19

MDN team:
https://twitter.com/SteveALee/status/1293487542382333952
Quote:
and ALL of MDN team :( Blow #2

AntiProtonBoy:

--- Quote ---Is Firefox dead now?
--- End quote ---
No. They are getting rid of people to reduce costs. COVID economy has put a damper on their long term development goals. The layoffs have been looming for some time now.

Benta:
I removed FF from all my machines (Win and Linux) a couple of years ago.

FF started out as a smart, relatively lightweight browser with a lot of configuration options thanks to addons.

It's ended up as one of the heaviest pieces of bloatware on the market, with the worst memory management imaginable.
Running FF on either Win or Linux forces restarts at least once a week due to full RAM and disk swap space.

Goodbye and good riddance.

MrMobodies:
I remembered when they shipped some edition that included plugin in about 2014 or so. What use to happen before, sometimes the external flash plugin would continue to utilize lot of cpu time over nothing after watching some Youtube videos or some other flash stuff after closing down the page.

On this edition I opened a blank page and the included flash starts to consume a lot ofl cpu time over a blank page. I killed it in task manager and felt so insulted for this overlay to appear over the working page (that was blank and didn't need flash) something about "the tab has crashed" etc telling me nothing useful and would not let me see behind it other than to reset the tab and then that loads up flash again. Not happy about that.

I think it was like the one on the attached image.

Also something had been removed do with some SSL version? I can't remember but I could not view certain webservers from my old routers and equipment and would not even allow me to make an exception and that is when I stopped recommended it  I stuck with the Firefox 22 and moved over Chrome and I think I might have mentioned this before somewhere.

I have seen some improvements in Firefox 75 but after I have customized it in the way I want and turning off things, that I don't want to see that put me off (or ruin it for me) like the decorations and animations (like the blue flashing thing when typing in the address bar that annoyed me but had to do it from Userchrome.css. Thanks to others complaining too about that and despite the complaints they have removed the options in about:config to turn them off in the later editions.

Marco:
IMO Quantum and process per tab improved Firefox and was worth getting rid of the old extension mechanism.

I'm comfortable with Firefox's current performance and direction, I'd hate for Apple to become the only real alternative to Chromium browsers.

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