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Comment by dathinab | Hacker News Reader

My guess:

Some bug caused a whole lot of extensions which normally need no manual review to now need a manual review overloading the manual review team.

And even through the bug has been fixed for some reason or another all the "fallout" still needs to be processed manually.

Maybe?

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That's what I'm thinking too. Possibly a security issue.

That... or they fired the reviewers.

That would be stupid.

Why? Firefox has relatively few users and has basically no viable path for growing it's users. At the same time they get a massive amount of money from Google that isn't based on the number of users. Cutting costs seems like the perfect MBA approach to increasing profits in this case. Sure you lose some more users but that's not relevant for profit. By the time it might matter those in charge would have cashed their bonuses and moved onto the next company.

> At the same time they get a massive amount of money from Google that isn't based on the number of users.

Is that really true? Surely, even if the contract isn't directly tied to user numbers, it's relevant whenever the deal is up for renewal...

See the last sentence. The people involved won't be there anymore by then. Short term focus is pretty standard for corporations.

> Short term focus is pretty standard for corporations.

I would rewrite this as "Short term focus is pretty standard for those not making the product."

From everywhere I've worked, the more actual work a person is doing on a product, the better they want to make it, and the less they want to deal with architecture problems down the road. The short term morons are always the ones that aren't actually making anything.

Sure, but the people making long term decisions in corporations are generally not the ones making the product. I would say in a way everyone cares about their own personal objectives and goals. Someone making a product cares about the joy they get from seeing it released and running and people using it. They want to minimize their own annoyance down the line. Those higher up care about the money they get in their bank account from their bonus. Neither particularly cares about the success of the corporation.

> Neither particularly cares about the success of the corporation.

Well written.

And sometimes, let's say for an online betting site, maybe that's a make sense mindset -- I mean, to not care.

Why think about the poker game company's future or the shareholders future profits -- why would they be and more important than oneself.

And maybe the existence of many companies is as meaningless as online poker games

Then who's doing the reviews? Higher paid people with more responsibilities?

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