Mozilla is shutting down two of the old ones products of Firefox Send and Firefox Notes, the company announced today.
"Both services are discontinued and will no longer be part of our product family."
Firefox Send
Of the two services, the most popular was Firefox Send, a free sharing service files and one of the few that supported file sharing in encrypted formats.
Released him March of 2019, and gained a lot of fans, but the service went offline earlier this summer as there was constant abuse by malicious software groups.
At the time, Mozilla said the shutdown of the Send service was temporary and promised to find a way to limit its abuse to functions malware. A few weeks later, things changed after Mozilla's leadership laid off more than 250 employees in an effort to refocus its business on commercial products.
So most of the staff that had to redesign Send does not exist and those who are still working deal with commercial products such as mozilla-vpn, the Firefox Monitor and Firefox Private Network.
Firefox Notes
The same reasons apply to Firefox Notes. It started as a way to store and synchronize encrypted notes between Firefox browsers.
"At the end of October we will set except running the Android Notes app and sync service," a Mozilla spokesperson said today.
"OR extension of the Firefox Notes browser for desktops will remain available for existing installations and we will include the option to export all notes, however it will no longer be developed by Mozilla and will no longer be installed.”
You can learn more about how to export content from Firefox Notes here