til my favorite browser has been losing a lot of ground over the years, i guess i've been living in my foxy bubble

It’s just a play on the charity CEO scam.

1. Start a charity
2. Get a CEO (usually the person who starts the charity)
3. Pay the CEO what other CEOs make because if we don’t pay at that rate we won’t get the best CEO
4. Fuck who ever the charity is for they’re just PR to afford the CEO salary

Usually I find these kinds of "non profit CEOs shouldn't make money" things kind of annoying but honestly I don't see any argument for a CEO to make more than a couple million regardless of context.

A better graph would compare salary to revenue and inflation

You can gain users while losing market share

What a poor soul, started out only making half a million dollars a year?? 😑

You know what else coincides with 2009? Google Chrome's release- a browser by a company with far more resources. I'm absolutely not a supporter of CEO pay going up in general- this post is just incredibly lazy

This graph shows a disingenuous relationship between revenue and the market share of a free and open source project within the walls of a not-for-profit organization. Firefox is not a revenue stream in the traditional sense. In fact, most of Mozilla 's money comes from grants and donations for projects and research they do.

I get that CEO=EVIL is a viral topic these days but if all you know about Mozilla is that they make the Not Chrome browser, then you should really educate yourself on what it is that Mozilla actually does for the internet. Then you might feel a little better with this pay scale graph.

That all aside, this graph shows the market share of Mozilla when there were 5 browsers available to the vast majority of users, Internet Explorer, Firefox, chrome, Opera, and safari. It's also before chrome took over the market share from IE at the same time that it pushed out Firefox as the leading browser because chrome was available on the iPhone and was the default browser on Android devices. Hardly a surprise to see that when the internet exploded in users and literally every human being started to carry around a chrome device in their pockets that Mozilla Firefox's market share went down.

Seems very suspicious that the CEO is getting paid millions while Firefox's market share is dropping like an anvill.

I think that money would be better spent on improving the browser and making sure there are more privacy protections, maybe even set an example for other browsers to follow. Make average people actually want to use Firefox instead of Chrome.

Firefox isn't their only product, but it's clearly their most popular one so this is very questionable.

Would be even better with info about their other product market share as well, and adjustment for inflation. Wouldn't change the overall message, but would give less stuff for jerks like me to nitpick.

What is a senior director of gift planning and how does that justify a salary of $260k?

Firefox user here, fuck chrome!

too much money but, mozilla does a lot more that firefox… (see also: rust

Is it adjusted for an inflation?

I smell some spurious correlation.

The thing I resent the most with mozilla is them dropping servo development. It was bringing great changes to firefox.

It's sad to see Firefox continue to lose popularity I thought there might be some kind of comeback but no.

Is the same thing all management does in companies, fill pockets, if possible keep this the same or just let them die, run away.

i switched to firefox because it had tabs and ie didn't. ie7 had tabbed browsing in 2006? i later switched to chrome because firefox stopped working well and i got sick of troubleshooting. i switched to brave a few years ago and started using firefox again this year, but i'm regularly switching browsers still trying to find one i like.

the loss of market share was because of chrome, right? Google had a good reputation back then, and their browser worked easily and you could customize it. I wish there were more options that weren't modified firefox or chrome, but i get why it's tough.