Posted 2/14/2024, 12:44:00 AM
Mozilla Lays Off 5% of Staff, Replaces CEO to Refocus on Firefox Mobile and AI Amidst Browser Wars
- Mozilla laid off about 60 staff, around 5% of its workforce, to focus on more promising products like Firefox Mobile and AI
- Longtime CEO Mitchell Baker stepped down, replaced by interim CEO Laura Chambers
- Mozilla faces tough competition in mobile browsers from Safari and Chrome which dominate the market
- Mozilla argues platform builders make it hard for 3rd-party browsers to compete on equal footing
- Mozilla wants to develop open-source, trustworthy AI features to match efforts by Google and Microsoft in their browsers