On: Firefox 80

[xvilka]

No layoffs mention in the release notes.

[deadalus → xvilka]

Why would browser users care about the layoffs?

[caycep → deadalus]

I suppose the long term view is - what's the economic health of the organization responsible for ongoing maintenance as well as R&D, features, engineering of the software? And also what's the risk of Firefox being "orphaned" or falling behind technologically to Chrome/Webkit. although the comment below is true; there is a time and place for long term strategic comments, vs. technical release notes...

[AnyTimeTraveler → xvilka]

Those are changenotes of a piece of software, not the company.

[freshsqueeze → AnyTimeTraveler]

i guess they should position themselves as software makers then, not social justice advocates https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

[tfsh → xvilka]

Usually release notes exhibit the state and changes of the software, not the workings and changes of the maintainers. What were you expecting, something like this?

New:

- Firefox can now be set as the default system PDF viewer.

- Laid off about 70 employees.

Fixed:

- Various security fixes.

[cadence- → tfsh]

- Laid off about 250 employees.

[freshsqueeze → xvilka]

even their layoff post barely mentioned layoffs