Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers.
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo has been named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was SVP of Firefox from 2004 to July 2005 and then from July until now was the GM of Firefox at Mozilla. He’s written a public message today in his first day serving as the new chief executive for Mozilla.
Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions."
Well it was fun while it lasted I guess
Another common mozilla L
Ummmmm, what is an AI browser? I mean, other than something I don’t want.
Does it browse AI generated content? Does it generate AI web pages for me? Does it just set chatgpt/copilot/grok/gemini as the homepage/default search? Does it use AI to customize content to your language/reading level? Does it flag non-AI content as potentially malicious like an http site?
I’m so lost.
You made me read the Comet browser review, as I did not have the courage to install it myself.
Seems useful if done privately and under supervision:
- has an AI chat sidebar that can interact with what you’re viewing
- can fill out forms (eg. you can dump unstructured text and have it fill, instead of copying field by field)
- it can browse the internet for you - you ask it a question and watch it browse pages to find one with an answer
- it can summarize the currently watched page. Which at first I thought was ridiculous but sometimes you need to get information from shitty bloated articles with 10 paragraphs of introduction
As long as it’s optional and done right (eg. It can fill the form but it’s me who submits it, and the model is running locally), sounds very useful. Also no reason why it can’t be a Firefox addon instead of built in.
It AI’s the AIable content that AI hasn’t already AI’d.
No, Pleaso no, god no
I use LibreWolf and Tor. I don’t care what Mozilla does. The garbage will be removed from the forks.
At what point does removing garbage become so complicated that they just stop merging anything in at all.
I heard that it’s hard as hell, but now I can’t remember if the dev who said it was from Firefox or Chrome.
I remember stories of Google intentionally making it hard for people to fork the project and maintain updates on it.
Never heard anything like that about Firefox, but doesn’t mean they don’t.
That will be up to the dev.
How long can they do they for. Like it or not Mozilla does most of the coding for those browsers. 0
so long as it’s optional, local, and private.
so long as it’s optional, local, and private.
… yes but also
- open source,
- open model,
- all annotations done with proper respect to
- labor law (ideally verified by 3rd party)
- IP
- clear on ecological cost
- CO2 eq in model card (ideally verified by 3rd party)
- analogy non technical user can understand
… which makes for a rather limited list.
My own constraints https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/CollaborationRelyingOnAI recommendations welcomed, both on such rules but also on models that do fit, if any.
I’m sorry, but it’s not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.
Just in time since 2026 we get the alpha of the ladybird browser. This will be a big boost for the new engines currently in development and the popularity of Librewolf.
Ain’t ladybird the browser with project lead Andreas Kling? Well… I don’t know if I wanna be part of that.
Who is that?
Can they rename the browser to Fireslop?
That’s a sick burn.
Guess I’m using Links2 now…
Try Dillo. It is what web browsers should have been.
Is it still kicking? Wow, never thought I’d come back to Dillo, Midori, Epyphany (GNOME Web) and links.
Is KDE browser hanging around still? I know apple based their browser off of it.
God I can’t wait until Servo is viable
The fact that its opt-out means you are more identifiable.
It harvests data by default. It has to.
The
manMBA’s statements are pure silicon valley woo. He’s a scammer. Firefox is even more fucked than I knew before looking him up. And I still feel like I’m missing something fucked that’s going on. I’m ending my gradual shift and unijstalling literally right now. I’m so fucking angry; I loved that browser for so long.
