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.
Some people want AI? Fine, there are plugins for that. Just stop the bullshit and focus on
- Stability
- Speed
- Efficiency
- Compliance to standards
Add a nice and customizable GUI and plugin support and you are golden.
Are there things an “AI browser” can do that a normal browser with an AI plugin can’t? Fine, then improve the plugin support. Stay in your lane.
Can I finally install web apps?
It will evolve into a modern AI browser
Are you serious right now bro?!! We don’t want an AI Browser!! We want a browser that keeps us private, secure and safe and doesn’t include any AI slop…
So you’re saying you want a personalised AI driven gaming browser with advertisments tailored to your interests?
He also said, AI must be a choice.
He said people should be able to turn it off. We want opt-in for trash features, not opt-out
Yeah but if it’s opt in it won’t look good on spreadsheets for people who didn’t opt out to say to investors look at how many people “use” this feature.
Cool, cool… time to unistall Firefox then.
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.
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.
The Venn diagram of Firefox users who want an AI browser is zero.
Know your customer.
They want the new customers.
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.”
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
Mozilla doesn’t, though.
Your local AI model of their mom doesn’t count
Why not offer what nobody else can?
New customers would flock to edge Copilot or google chrome Gemini
Yeah, that’s great Mozilla. Have fun with that. You just make sure that shit can be compiled out so I can use a forked project that’s had all the stupid sanitized out of it.
People trust our brand.
Unspoken rest of the idea, “Let’s take advantage of that.”
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.
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.
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.
You already lost my trust at “something you can turn off”. This shit doesn’t not need to be enabled by default in the first place.
I hope this doesn’t screw over the forks like LibreWolf, IceCat, and Waterfox.
Ladybird cannot get here soon enough
My very first thought.
Can it be the replacement inside Seamonkey too?
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.
These two statements seem at odds:
AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.
And later:
It will evolve into a modern AI browser
Turn it off with the X in the top corner
