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I have an article in my personal wiki titled "How to Unfuck Firefox". It contains a list of the broken default behavior, workarounds, and long-standing unfixed bugs that have caused me great pain over the last decade.

It is thus ironic in the extreme that Mozilla is spending time and money on a campaign called "Unfuck the Internet" at a time that they're coming under fire for squandering their financial resources on CEO pay and pet projects instead of focusing their efforts on disrupting the Chrome/Webkit monopoly.

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I think it's gross to pay the CEO a high salary if you're asking people for donations, but Mozilla isn't; they're self-funded. So if they want to blow all that money on their CEO, I guess it's their call.

https://donate.mozilla.org/

They are asking for donations.

The foundation is, but I think the high CEO pay is paid for from the corporation's budget, which is self-funded.

The current CEO used to be head of the foundation and board, so she was receiving $1M+ a year already, paid with those donations.

Nope, see page 52 https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo...

It says "paid only by related for-profit".

Oh right, thanks!

sure as hell keeps me from funding them though. We don't need more overpaid CEOs.

Companies need good CEOs to lead them in a good direction, and good CEOs want money.

I'm sure people would care far less about ceo pay if they felt Firefox was headed in a good direction

Yet somehow it seems like Mozilla is going in a worse direction than ever.

You're not wrong, but the contention here is that bad CEOs also want money and by all metrics, the Mozilla ship is going in the wrong direction.

can you please link said article directly? searching for the personal wiki title and your HN username shows nothing

Seconding this request.

I suspect he didn't mean public wiki

That would make sense. I missed the word personal in there.

Sorry about that.

>instead of focusing their efforts on disrupting the Chrome/Webkit monopoly.

How do you know they're not doing that? Its a large organization.

Also, it is very hard to hire quality people at lower salaries, its just the nature of the beast. I work in life sciences and we work primarily in the public health sector (vaccines) and it is amazingly hard to find talented scientists when the larger companies in our area vacuum up the talent pool each year. We're not a non-profit, so our salaries are bit higher, but I can imagine how hard it must be hiring for a non-profit. Especially STEM grads. If you're a quality dev at FAANG or some-such, how much of a salary hit are you willing to take to work on an open source browser?

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