In 2008, Brendan Eich donated US$1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8, a California ballot proposition and state constitutional amendment in opposition to same-sex marriage. In December 2020, Mozilla closed its Mountain View office. Despite this, executive pay increased 400%, with Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s top executive, being paid $2.4m in 2018. Firefox has fallen from 30% market share to 4% in 10 years. In 2020 Mozilla announced it would be cutting off 25% of its staff to reduce costs. In January 2017 the company rebranded away from its dinosaur symbol in favor of a logo that includes a '://' character sequence from a URL, with the revamped logo: 'moz://a'.

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