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.
"People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does. They want to understand what’s happening and to have real choices.
Mozilla and Firefox can be that choice.
Few companies share our strengths. People trust our brand. Firefox brings us global reach. Our teams know how to build reliable, independent software at scale, and our business model puts the user first.
As Mozilla moves forward, we will focus on becoming the trusted software company. This is not a slogan. It is a direction that guides how we build and how we grow. It means three things.
First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
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."
AI is mentioned throughout Enzor-DeMeo’s announcement post on the Mozilla Blog.
Mozilla continuing to take wrong turns.
Ok get fucked Mozilla. Lynx it is…
Cool, cool… time to unistall Firefox then.
This is not why I use firefox
The Venn diagram of Firefox users who want an AI browser is zero.
Know your customer.
They want the new customers.
New customers would flock to edge Copilot or google chrome Gemini
McDonalds want’s new customers too, but that doesn’t mean that they should announce that they’re going to be focusing on expanding McDonalds into a sushi restaurant. Sure sushi is great, but it has an entirely different supply chain and preparation method than hamburgers. By pushing McSushi you both risk driving away driving away customers who only wanted a simple burger joint as well as risking introducing inefficiencies as your hamburger cooks and sushi chefs trip over each other in the kitchen.
I’m really, really upset that you put the image of McSushi into my head. Well done.
Read my followup comment. My money’s on “they wouldn’t mind, and might actually prefer, losing their all current customers.”
Why not offer what nobody else can?
They would get new customers by being the clean browser without any of this ai bullshit. It was a free reason to use the browser. Let’s hope forks are still viable, Mozilla cannot stop fucking up.
Evidence suggests they would trade every one of their current users for someone completely new, chosen at random. Current users of Firefox forks are probably even less desirable customers.
I use firefox and your mom thinks im desirable
Your local AI model of their mom doesn’t count
Mozilla doesn’t, though.
While this is obviously not thrilling news to the fuck_ai crowd, it isn’t that bad either.
A new CEO is going to express a grand vision. In fact, we kind of hope they do lest they be weaselly caretakers who flip-flop on major initiatives.
And AI is pretty much every other word in any tech CEO’s statement right now. They get penalized if they don’t use it. I’m reading it here like, “All you big institutional donors, don’t fret we’re still in the goddamned boat with you fuckers” while at the same time saying “well turn it off if you want” - a kind of common sense statement sorely lacking in exactly this kind of statement.
So I give it a B- / C+. Not in danger yet, just needs improvement. A statement like this can’t really “win” anything so you want people to be sort of interested and kinda bored with it. Perfect.
I love your optimism. I don’t share it, but I love it. I hope you’re right.
We will develope a new API in partnership with AI providers that allows for tighter integration with our browser. To the point, a user can easily make it agentic if they want to. Or they can opt into the parts they want.
We are starting a new team that will work with such AI developers to ensure that the plugins they deploy both properly notify/request user permissions and only send the data they say they will.That’s the “Let’s go AI!” while also being “We aren’t sheep!” message.
Firefox should be the “user choice” browser
Fuuuucckk!
I’ve stuck with Mozilla for so long despite missing a lot of things I could’ve had, you know, for freedom.
But this is not the correct course anymore. This sounds like the same AI bullshit we get shoved down our throats everywhere.
Oof on to the next one
Honestly none of this sounds good.
Firefox will grow into a suite of software? Why?
People just want Mozilla to make Firefox fast and modern (I.e. renders their content, follows web standards correctly, is secure)
AI and whatever else is just a distraction from the one product people want.
Firefox will grow into a suite of software? Why? People just want Mozilla to make Firefox fast and modern
I thought that’s what the direction a while ago was, as well. Mozilla would focus on the browser only, and make that really good. Now it’s a complete 180 if we are to interpret this in the worst possible way.
Do you know the saying, something like “traffic engineers are paid to build roads, they are not paid to not build roads”
In line with this, MBAs will do MBA things.
Firefox will grow into a suite of software? Why?
My guess is that this is just a branding push. Not so much “the firefox browser will start doing all sorts of non browser things” and more like “we’re going to call our non-browser things firefox”.
For example:
- Thunderbird -> Firefox Mail
- Mozilla VPN -> Firefox VPN
I thought Thunderbird was a community project nowadays.
April fools! Haha… Wait… Guys?.. It’s April, right?.. Guys?.. Tell me it’s FUCKING APRIL!
Thank Satan for all those projects that de-trash Firefox for everyone. Not waterfox though, that dev has explicitly said he isn’t committed to personal privacy and such.
I feel like we are just collectively on the cusp of discovering a new browser and walking away from Firefox.
Just the way we all discovered Firefox back in the day and said fuck any other browser.
People trust our brand.
Unspoken rest of the idea, “Let’s take advantage of that.”
Well fuck
