[HN Gopher] Steve Teixeira, Mozilla's New Chief Product Officer ___________________________________________________________________ Steve Teixeira, Mozilla's New Chief Product Officer Author : wasmitnetzen Score : 26 points Date : 2022-08-15 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.mozilla.org) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.mozilla.org) | ngetchell wrote: | Please, please, please focus on making the browser better. Hammer | home the privacy angle against Chrome. Force Canonical to sit | down and fix the Snap launching issues. Open source Pocket and | make special features a perk of donating to the browser. | | Not sure if this is possible but being lean enough to handle the | eventuality of Google refusing to bid to be the default search | partner. | [deleted] | acrispino wrote: | Canonical is working on firefox snap performance: | https://snapcraft.io/blog/improving-firefox-snap-performance... | | That said, I've switched to using the firefox tarball. Start up | performance isn't the only issue. Snap firefox doesn't seem to | respect my dconf settings and I experienced some strange | hangups that forced me to kill the browser. | kitsunesoba wrote: | I would also like customizability to stop being trimmed away, | and ideally for some of the things that users currently | accomplish with userchrome hacks to be supported directly one | way or another. | idle_zealot wrote: | The number 1 thing I want to see from Firefox is fist-class | support for tree tabs. Using an extension and hacking on | userChrome to hide the tab bar is getting tiring, especially | with the barriers Mozilla have erected to make user styles | more difficult to enable. | TedDoesntTalk wrote: | ... and say no to Web Extension s manifest v3, or at least | make long-lived background pages an option instead of short- | lived service workers. | fzfaa wrote: | Is he of Spanish or Portuguese descent? Sounds like a Galician | last name but I'm not sure. | flobosg wrote: | Teixeira is a Galician-Portuguese surname. | buscoquadnary wrote: | > Steve comes to us most recently from Twitter, where he spent | eight months as a Vice President of Product for their Machine | Learning and Data platforms. Prior to that, Steve led Product | Management, Design and Research in Facebook's Infrastructure | organization. He also spent almost 14 years at Microsoft where he | was responsible for the Windows third-party software ecosystems | and held leadership roles in Windows IoT, Visual Studio and the | Technical Computing Group. | | This guy is sounding like bad news all around. I want the CPO to | be someone with a strong tech background and I mean actual tech | not tech bro. This guy's resume reads like a list of out of date | buzzwords. This is another MBA suit that is going to make FF | worse not better, mark my words. | pavlov wrote: | The bar for "actual tech" must be extremely high if Twitter- | scale ML, Facebook-scale infrastructure and Microsoft IDEs and | Technical Computing group don't count. | [deleted] | primeblue wrote: | tlb wrote: | There is so much opportunity to make Firefox great. It could make | a billion people significantly happier and safer online. I hope | he can make it happen. | lysergia wrote: | Great! Now: | | Stop tracking people with telemetry. You don't need to know how | many users you have. People strip FF of telemetry anyways. Look | at LibreWolf and learn. | | Clean up the FF addons repository. So many addons are plain | malware and invading peoples privacy surreptitiously. | | Get rid of Pocket. Nobody uses it and it was forced on users. | | Stop piggybacking on handouts from Google. There are other ways | to source revenue. Make FF donationware if you must. I would | happily send you PS5.00 per month if it means I and others can | continue to use FF. | Pavelvossssoim wrote: | Pavelvossssoim wrote: | skrtskrt wrote: | > There are few opportunities today to build software that is | unambiguously good for the world | | He's coming from a brief stint at Twitter and long stints at | Facebook and Microsoft. What could he know about building | something unambiguously good for the world? | zeroonetwothree wrote: | Yeah I am pretty worried about this as a big FF user. | [deleted] | happytoexplain wrote: | I don't read that as implying he believes his previous | employers built such products. He is in fact emphasizing the | rarity of such a thing, and I agree with him. | skrtskrt wrote: | No it doesn't read that way, but it raises the question of | whether he really knows what an unequivocally good tech | product is and whether he will stoutly refuse to compromise | for the sake of growth. | | I think any amount of time as a corporate decisionmaker can | skew your moral compass, and he was at three companies that | have history of being particularly damaging | Aisen8010 wrote: | It's surprising that Mitchell Bakers still is Mozilla's CEO. | Firefox has been bleeding users for years, but no change in the | command. | coffeeblack wrote: | It's 2022, it doesn't surprise me. | influx wrote: | "In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation | from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008.[14] | On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When | asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was | about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles | elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a | discount to ask people and their families to commit to." | | In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had | risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla | Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to | shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus | pandemic." ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-15 23:00 UTC)