However, like many companies around the globe from many diverse industries, COVID-19 came in like a wrecking ball during Q1 2020 and completely disrupted the game plan. It's an unsettling turn of events for a company that started off 2020 with high hopes and aspirations for its most well-known product, Firefox, and newly developed products like its VPN.
The layoffs represent roughly one quarter of its entire workforce (Mozilla says that affected personnel will get severance pay through the end of the year along with H1 2020 bonuses). The company had to make the unfortunate decision to lay off 250 employees in an effort to get its finances in order. Which brings us to another gut punch for Mozilla this week. Mozilla Lays Off Nearly A Quarter Of Its Workforce Neither browser comes close to approaching the commanding lead of Google Chrome, but Edge's second-place showing represents a psychological victory for Microsoft. Firefox has long been in second place to Google Chrome, but Microsoft Edge has now slipped into the second place slot as Firefox's share of the desktop browser market continues to slide. We compete with Google because the health of the internet and online life depend on competition and choice."įast forward to the present day, roughly 7 months after the first public release of Chromium Edge, and Firefox is in a precarious position.
Microsoft announced its decision to abandon EdgeHTML for Edge in late 2018, after which Mozilla's Chris Beard decried, "Microsoft’s decision gives Google more ability to single-handedly decide what possibilities are available to each one of us. Earlier this month, we reported that Mozilla - the company behind the Firefox web browser - was starting to see some of the ill-effects of its worst fears concerning Microsoft's switch to Chromium for its Edge web browser.
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