Mozilla fires 250 employees in restructuring

Today we announced a significant restructuring of Mozilla Corporation. This will strengthen our ability to build and invest in products and services that will give people alternatives to conventional Big Tech. Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce by approximately 250 people. These are individuals of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today. To each of them, I extend my heartfelt thanks and deepest regrets that we have come to this point. This is a humbling recognition of the realities we face, and what is needed to overcome them.

I feel for the 250 laid off employees - that always sucks and I hope they will be able to find a new job quickly.

That being said, I have no idea what to make of this corporate speak word soup, and it's hard to parse what, exactly, is going to change from here on out. There's nothing concrete here, no announcements, no goals or targets - just vague evergreen wording.

There's hints that the deal with Google - wherein Google contributes about 90% of Mozilla's revenue to be the default search engine in Firefox - might expire and not be renewed at the end of this year, which would effectively cut all of Mozilla's revenue off. That will be an immense shock, and it could easily spell the end of the Mozilla Foundation in its current form - and thus the continued viability of Firefox.