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Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013

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They sure appear to need it. I've been following Mac-related Bugzilla-reports during the past year and it seems to be desperately understaffed.

But you don't have to frequent Bugzilla to see that. For example, Firefox on OS X still has the pre-10.7 scrollbars while Chrome got the new ones fixed shortly after the OS-release. That was now over a year ago.

Despite this, Firefox (or Nightly) is still my primary browser for many reasons, including add-ons and the fact that I truly believe that Mozilla want what is best for the web.

That last reason is also why I'm so sad to see them fall behind like this. Without their market-share, they won't have much say on web-matters and should the web be shaped completely by money-driven interests, the users would suffer.

Please Mozilla, get your act together and don't neglect your browser on any platform. Every user counts.

"""Choosing "New Window" from Firefox's dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space""" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574229) has been driving me crazy every day since I started using a Mac for work.

Many thanks to Josh Aas for fixing this!

It's not really a matter of neglect, it's a matter of finding people who actually want to do this. OS integration is pretty difficult with Firefox's codebase, partially because it's not really a native app. Parts are real (like the titlebar) but most isn't (including scrollbars). It's hard & dirty work being done by a very small team.

(I'm a former Mozilla employee who added Lion Full Screen support and did some other OS X integration work. If you know somebody who cares about Firefox and wants to work on OS X related work let me know and I'll git in touch with the right people to make that happen.)

This is one area I'd love to work if I end up not doing my startup. The qualifications are pretty steep though. 5+ years Objective C experience :).

Mozilla is actually looking to hire somebody to work on platform integration on OSX: http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBuTVfwD

Not sure if they still do this, but they used to give each new employee a physical object and say "This is your 1,000,000 users. Try not to abuse them - too much."

Sadly, I haven't received such a physical object after working at Mozilla for 3 years. When I joined though, we did have over 1 million users per paid staff member. That is a lot of responsibility.

What do these "product development and product management teams" do? Is this for the Boot to Gecko project?

I'm quite frankly surprised at the number mentioned. I'm also disappointed that they made the decision to put Thunderbird basically on life support. A self-hosted web version would have made a nice product.

Does anyone have a link to the official announcement? I see nothing on Mozilla's blog and Techcrunch has failed to provide a link.

I don't think that Mozilla wants to get in on the web service bandwagon or they would have before now. In any case, it was abundantly clear that Thunderbird was not going anywhere without some new ideas, so shutting it down was probably the most cost effective move.

Open an Austin office. :)

Even though there's not an Austin office (yet), you should still apply. A significant portion of paid staff work from their homes, hacker spaces or cafes. I worked remotely for Mozilla for 9 months before I moved to the Bay Area.

Check out the Careers page and see if there's anything you like: http://careers.mozilla.org/

That sounds like the GitHub working model. Is GitHub and Mozilla, along with a lot of small startups, the only groups that practice it? It sounds so convenient for recruiting from a wider pool of talent.

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