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.

A better graph would compare salary to revenue and inflation

You can gain users while losing market share

The argument is if you don’t pay a CEO enough, they will go elsewhere where they are paid more. I don’t know whether that is a good argument or not, but (at least some) CEOs have a skill set critical to the success of an organization. It would be interesting to know how the pay of CEOs in general has changed over time. That would tell you if this is shitty or not. My expectation is that it is somewhere in the middle leaning toward acceptable

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

Honestly I could care less about CEO salaries or company politics. I care about the service they provide. In this case the service is bad.

Can we get these graphs for duckduckgo superimposed on this one?

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.

Probably not a coincidence that the share plummets around the same time as the smartphone explosion.

I’d be curious to see just desktop browsers, to see how much there’s really an exodus of Firefox users vs. new devices being added that restrict third-party browsers.

Also salary should be inflation-adjusted.

Neither probably changes the graph too much though.

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

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

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

Graphs like these have been going on for years.

It is possible that the CEO came in and cleaned out the bloat of workers that just come in and hang out basically (common in the tech field and has been done to Twitter (X)). -That would make the salary increase correlate to savings. Showing a correlation between development and available funds would be pertinent. Just off the top of my head, I remember significant improvements since first seeing graphs like this.

Also take into account the competition was dismal until Chrome came along. Much like the game console market when Sony entered it, the browser market was hurting with a hole to fill for a strong leader.

Mozillas politics don’t help. Choosing a side can alienate about half your user base. Flip-flopping sides and you’re killing off your whole user base. Declaring dishonestly that ‘we can’t do this without your donations’ while making bank from Google (long time ago) doesn’t help either. Politics would need to come into play here and how much those are on the CEO.

They mostly appeal to Linux users (people more likely to switch out things), and almost every Linux YouTuber promotes Brave (which is shady af). Brave also has or had an undeniable corporate presence in the browsers sub on Reddit with weekly Brave vs *** for a particular category Brave would win at by low karma accounts. Firefox lacked that marketing, not for being a bad browser. Prior to, they had the FOSS fanbase influencing for them.

Statistics and graphs are tools of propagandists. There might be something there, but there’s often a bigger picture to be seen. Firefox isn’t a bad browser, and I’m hoping they can turn it around to gain marketshare again. (and drop all politics).

If this inclusive to all the forks? Alot of folks run forks cus they don’t like both ff and chrome. Just sayin.

He is obviously way too highly paid by an insane amount, but where are these people going? There’s no way they’re all going to Chrome, right?

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