[dubcanada]

1800 ish devs from the last figure I could find. 700 ish on Firefox.

Now there is no way 700 people actually work on Firefox code. Throw in team leads, QA, dev tools, UI, specialized developers like WebRTC and that number makes a little more sense. But still seems inflated.

Most of Mozilla is already remote.

I mean Mozilla and Firefox should survive. But I do imagine we’ll lose Thunderbird and anything not Firefox related. And dev will drop heavily. CEO salary of almost 7 million will need to go as well.

It may be good for Mozilla to return to a streamlined company. Rather then a bloated one as it is now.

[frabcus]

Thunderbird is (amazingly) funded entirely by donations from users. The money is hypothecated for that purpose. There are so few good email clients now they get enough donors.

Source: someone I know who works there

[nottorp]

Wait, you can donate for Thunderbird specifically?

[20after4]

Almost nothing noticeable has changed with Firefox for years. A couple of minor features here and there, and just keeping up with standards. It does seem pretty excessive. Definitely seems that Mozilla has become massively wasteful and misguided over the past ~15 years.

[mensetmanusman]

That’s actually the point. An army of people are keeping up with standards so things just work. I’m curious as to what it looks like when only certain browsers are maintained.