[Mailtemi]

Mozilla diversifies by increasing the CEO's salary for nothing.

Wiki: In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, Baker's salary was more than $3 million. In 2021, her salary rose again to more than $5 million, and again to nearly $7 million in 2022.

The new CEO brings computing for AI money bleed that almost no one wants.

[culi]

We know this because of Mozilla's commitment to transparency. These figures come from their annual reports

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2023/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2022/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2021/

etc

I'm not defending it at all, but I think it's worth pointing out this pay rate is below the rate most CEOs of tech companies of this size are making. I don't really know what the solution here is but I imagine any CEO they replace her with would also seek a high salary. I'd love for them to become a worker-owned cooperative like Igalia but I really don't see that happening any time soon

[bad_user]

I don't agree with Mozilla paying that huge CEO salary, but…

Do you know Firefox's handy new offline translation feature? That's AI a well. And Firefox is the only browser that doesn't leak your web page when translating it.

There are plenty of other uses for AI, such as describing images without alt-text for the blind, or summarization. I, for one, want AI in my browser, you can't really say that “nobody wants it”, when many people clearly do.

[Mailtemi]

Really? Fire the Rust Servo team and double the CEO's salary in the same year? Almost the same money.

[glenstein]

What's the news on them getting into AI?

[ac29]

Firefox translate uses an on device language model to do webpage translations.

There's also an experimental chatbot integration in Firefox. It seems to be opt in at least for now.