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A few days ago, it looked like they were ditching Thunderbird so they could concentrate on their phone products. What's left besides Firefox?

- "WebMaker", whatever that does.

- Rust.

- The $60 Mozilla hoodie.

- Their world tour of meetups.[1]

- The really fancy headquarters overlooking SF bay.

A tight focus on Firefox might be a win. I'm looking forward to an all-Rust browser.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/events/

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Besides the HQ, what else is left is a $1 million/year Chair (up from $801k the year before), a Director on $874k (up from $779k) and a Treasurer on $908k (up from $613k) [0] [1]

I do not begrudge high their salaries in the slightest, but I can't help but think bringing on folks with half the salary of the above employees would buy enough coders to do more innovation, which they really need. The Technical Lead in 2013 got $179,000 (the job is not listed in the financials in 2014).

The those three top job cost the equivalent of 20% of the Foundations revenue in the 2014 year ($13.5 million, more or less evenly split between donations and "program service revenue").

[0] Year end 2013 Financials: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2013_Mozilla_Found...

[1] Year end 2014 Financials: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2014_Mozilla_Found...

Edit: revised 2014 figures higher as I was not looking at total compensation.

The foundation doesn't do any engineering work on Firefox. Paid coding is funded from the 300 million or so dollars a year the Mozilla corporation makes in search revenue.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3009646/search/mozilla-...

What's left besides Firefox?

You state that as if it's a bad thing. It's the best news I heard in years! Firefox could certainly use more engineering resources especially with the recently extended platform coverage (iOS).

SeaMonkey? Or is there practically no connection left with Mozilla? (I still use Composer for maintaining some basic stuff and use it on my netbook where it ironically is faster than Firefox).

4 days ago, I read a Mozilla employee writing "Seamonkey does not interest anyone inside Mozilla. Who would nowadays use a Netscape-like tool?".

I use Seamonkey because it has sane UI interface elements like "buttons+text" that are actually larger than 15 pixels so that I can click on them without having to exactly aim my mouse on a tiny little button. My guess is that every Firefox developer still runs a 2007 Asus eeebook with a 7" screen. I got more pixels than I care to count, so I just want a UI that scales in proportion with the screen.

Just one example why Seamonkey is important (for me at least).

Firefox on Windows respects the DPI settings (unlike Chrome!). So if you enable the relevant options in Windows' display settings, everything in the Firefox UI and webpages, including icons gets scaled up appropriately.

So it actually does exactly what you want?!

>My guess is that every Firefox developer still runs a 2007 Asus eeebook with a 7" screen.

I can assure you that they do not, because Firefox requires heavy tweaking to run comfortably in 1 gigabyte of RAM.

Seamonkey is real nice though.

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