[HN Gopher] Steve Teixeira, Mozilla's New Chief Product Officer
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Steve Teixeira, Mozilla's New Chief Product Officer
Author : wasmitnetzen
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-08-15 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(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."
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