This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    661·
    17 days ago

    Just turn the updates off. Might want to remove the seatbelts from your car too, so annoying having to put them on and take them off every time you need to drive somewhere.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
      313·
      17 days ago

      Doesn’t work. Firefox keeps nagging me to update every freaking time I open the browser. Now if they let me turn the nagging off it wouldn’t be so bad.

      I want an update once per quarter, not once per week. Only more often than that if there is a critical security fix.

          • tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            17 days ago

            You will get one update per year, and “only more often that that if there is a critical security fix”.

            • dan@upvote.auEnglish
              10·
              17 days ago

              There’s no winning. Some people use the regular version and complain about the updates, while others use the ESR release and complain that sites that use cutting-edge features don’t work properly.

              The solution to updates is to use Linux, since then it’ll update through your distro’s package manager along with your other software.

              • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                17 days ago

                Chrome does this just fine on windows. It just updates in the background so the only thing you need to do is (re)open chrome and it’s done. Firefox doesn’t, and waits until you try to launch it to update. On my laptop where I use FF infrequently makes it’s startup time about 30 seconds basically every time I open it.