Mozilla released recently that Steve Teixeira has joined the ranks of the company as «Chief Product Officer» (that is, something like a product manager). This arrival, personally announced by the foundation's CEO, Mitchell Baker, is intended to breathe new life into the foundation's products, whose flagship, Firefox, is in its final stages.
But while Mozilla seeks to recover means to face the fierce competition facing, this hiring gives rise to a long list of criticism directed at Mozilla in the management of its products and mainly at Firefox.
If Mitchell Baker has set his sights on Steve Teixeira, it is for several reasons. First, Steve comes straight from Twitter, where he spent eight months as vice president of products for its data and machine learning platforms.
Before that, led the management, design and research of products in infrastructure organization Facebook. He also spent nearly 14 years at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the Windows third-party software ecosystems and held leadership positions in Windows IoT, Visual Studio, and the Technical Computing Group.
Teixeira too has held various engineering positions in small and medium-sized companies of Silicon Valley in areas such as development tools, endpoint security.
Within Mozilla, Mitchell Baker notes, Steve will be responsible for leading the product teams. Operationally, this will include defining a vision and product strategy that accelerates the growth and impact of the foundation's existing products and lays the groundwork for new product development.
For the CEO of Mozilla, its technical and product management expertise, as well as his leadership experience, make him the right person to lead the product teams within Mozilla.
Teixeira, for his part, says that
“there are few opportunities today to create software that is indisputably good for the world, while being pleasing to customers and great for business.” And to complete: “I see this potential in Firefox, Pocket and the rest of the Mozilla family of products. I'm also thrilled to be part of the evolution of the product family that comes from projecting Mozilla's enduring principles through a modern lens to solve some of the thorniest challenges facing Internet users today."
If at present no one can predict what the arrival of Teixeira will bring for better or for worse at the level of the foundation's products, this situation, however, gives the opportunity to several Internet users upset by the decline of Firefox and the questionable options of the members of the foundation, to reflect.
As Product Manager, Steve will be responsible for leading our product teams. This will include establishing a vision and product strategy that accelerates the growth and impact of our existing products and laying the groundwork for new product development.
In the years before Chrome's meteoric rise, Firefox stood out from Chrome and Internet Explorer in ad blocking, support for multiple web standards, privacy protection, performance, and more.
But today, these arguments probably don't make a difference to other browsers anymore. Therefore, the foundation must innovate at the risk of losing even more market share. Given these arguments, some Internet users point out that Firefox must face the browsers that are installed by default on mobile and desktop operating systems such as Chrome-Android, Safari-macOS and iOS and Edge-Windows.
But these details are exceeded in breach, because Internet Explorer was installed by default in Windows, but that did not prevent Firefox from growing and even surpassing Internet Explorer when Internet users began to move away from this browser.
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