Firefox weakened? Mozilla Foundation lays off 30 percent of its employees

As Mozilla confirmed following an initial report from TechCrunch, 30 percent of jobs at the Mozilla Foundation, located above the business side of the organization, will be eliminated. Two important areas focused on lobbying and representing Mozilla’s interests will be eliminated. Most recently, the Mozilla Foundation had approximately 120 employees. About two years ago, the company still had around 60 employees, which is why Mozilla recently expanded the foundation significantly. The jobs now eliminated mainly concern people who were part of the Advocacy and Global Programs departments, which are now completely disbanded.

The relevant departments were responsible for lobbying for Mozilla’s interests, so to speak, advocating for an open, free web, accessible to everyone with as few restrictions as possible. This also applies to technologies and issues such as censorship or the concentration of power at certain points. The Mozilla Foundation said it wanted to continue its work in this direction despite recent layoffs and the dissolution of departments, it said in a statement. They said they were reorganizing to increase their agility and capacity for change. Mozilla had just laid off around sixty employees from its Firefox browser development team at the start of the year, thus considerably reducing the commercial arm that is Mozilla Corporation. The browser has lost a lot of importance in recent years as Google Chrome has become increasingly stronger as its market share has declined.