Exclusive: Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
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Laura Chambers will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.

Mozilla Corp., which manages the open-source Firefox browser, announced today that Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit foundation. Laura Chambers, a Mozilla board member and entrepreneur with experience at Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay, will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.

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Official Blog Post: A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future

  • ferralcat@monyet.cc
    5·
    1 year ago

    Reading this new CEOs job history on linkedin is kinda infuriating. She goes from intern to head of consumer products at Skype in less than a year. Just… Frustrating to read that while I am and manage really good people who struggle for decades in the trenches to get even paltry job opportunities.

    But she got her MBA from Stanford so nepotism ahoy I guess.

    • anar@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. “Airbnb, Paypal, and ebay” doesn’t inspire confidance either

    • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They have a for-profit subsidiary, for tax purposes.

        • Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yesm It is weird, but it would be impossible for a foundation to develop complex software like a Web browser. Engineers cost.

            • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              They are skins over someone else’s browser.

              KDE’s Konqueror uses Qt WebEngine, which is developed by the Qt Company and is based on Google:s Chromium.

              GNOME’s Epiphany uses WebKit, developed by Apple.

              Trisquel’s Abrowser is a rebranded Mozilla Firefox.

              • darkpanda@lemmy.ca
                1·
                1 year ago

                Ironically, all of these things except Abrowser are based on Konqueror’s original engine, KHTML, so Konqueror was actually the OG engine. KHTML was forked to WebKit, which was forked to Blink, which became the underpinnings of Qt WebEngine, which Konqueror now uses.

                This is also why KHTML still appears in the user agent strings for all of these engines, but back in the day the Gecko engine used in Mozilla products was already a thing and KHTML was the alternative to that, hence “KHTML, like Gecko”.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    They should focus more on their mobile browser. At this point the desktop browser is on par with Chrome. People who use Chrome does it because they don’t care enough about privacy, but on mobile there is a noticeable difference between their performances.