Chris Blizzard bids farewell to Firefox, heads for unnamed startup

[![Chris Blizzard][1]][2]Chris Blizzard, a man who has been with [Mozilla][3] since its founding in 1998, has left the group and his position as director of web platform to work with a startup. Who the company is and what it does Blizzard didn't specify when announcing his move. In a blog post he said only that the Palo Alto-based outfit was doing "great (and difficult!) work that deals with the intersection of systems, compilers, and web-scale problems." Blizzard's decision to leave the foundation comes a time of relative turmoil, including a number of high-profile personnel changes, a major shift in the [development cycle][4] and a landscape that is increasingly [mobile][5] [minded][6] and [hostile][7] to Firefox. Still, after more than a decade, the browser has proven its resilience and we wouldn't worry much about its future. We wish Mr. Blizzard the best of luck in his future endeavours.

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