Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the nonprofit gets to both advocate for a better web and show people what it looks like. But these are not the best of times. Mozilla has spent the last couple of years implementing layoffs and restructuring, attempting to explain how it can fight for privacy and openness when Google pays most of its bills, while trying to find its place in an increasingly frothy AI landscape.
Fun times to be the new Mozilla CEO, right? But when I put all that to Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, the company’s just-announced chief executive, he swears he sees opportunity in all the upheaval. “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”
Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”
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Ive been wary if firefox since wheneved it was they decided it was okay to shove “pocket” into the browser. These days i dont see mozilla as anything other than anti monopoly insurance for google, which they obviously dont need anymore.
Mozilla as a company has just been a decade of one poor decision after another adding more bloat and doing nothing meaningful to counter chromes near monopoly.
Vivaldi isnt perfect and brave has its baggage, but at least they actually include adblocking out of the box, a feature that just about everyone wants. Sure its easy enough to install an addon to firefox for it but the fact that you even have to do that should tell you everything you need to know about who mozilla is actually working for.
Abandoned FF in 2021 and went on Brave because fuck Mozilla. No regrets. Vivaldi is cool as well, but I think that the adblocker is a bit weaker. I’d switch to it otherwise.
Out of the frying pan, into the Brave fire. You might want to look at the controversy around Brave, if you haven’t.
Brave works fine for me and that’s all it matters. I don’t care about made up “controversies” of and internet drama. As if Mozilla didn’t fuck It up several times along it’s miserable history.
Librewolf has all of the good parts of Brave and none of the shitty parts
Still slower than Chromium plusI don’t want to give market share to Gecko because fuck Mozilla.
if you go into settings, you can manage sources and add additional filterlists.
I know. Still, it has a bit less flexibility isolation than Brave (fingerprint protection, ephemeral storage and so on).
I know. Still, it has a bit less flexibility isolation than Brave (fingerprint protection, ephemeral storage and so on).