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."

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[–] 75 points 10 months ago

Another common mozilla L

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  • [–] 99 points 10 months ago

    Well it was fun while it lasted I guess

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  • [–] 38 points 10 months ago (23 children)

    OK peeps, crowd sourcing time.

    What other gecko (or non-webkit) browsers are out there?

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 10 months ago (15 children)
  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Except that *Fox, *Fennec and *Wolf are downstream to Firefox, so if the main trunk goes shit, they will become outdated soon.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    You kinda want it to be based on Firefox, as the only other option is chrome. The forks already strip out all the mozilla bullshit, it'll just be more work to strip out all the AI nonsense.

    I'm mainly familiar with librewolf, it's not just stripped of nonsense but also hardened by default. Actually so much so that I stayed on Firefox as it was too much effort (so far) to "unharden" all the aspects I didn't want or need.

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago* (3 children)
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    FOSS to thrive needs people who can afford to spend time and energy on it. With the recent enshittification of workers collective power, developers have less of both, and the trend is pessimistic.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Aren’t these all soft forks of Firefox? What we need is a hard fork with the funding and team capable of sustaining it.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Not really. Mullvad Browser is a Tor Browser fork. WebLibre is a Gecko-engine based Flutter browser written from scratch.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Mullvad Browser is literally based on Firefox ESR. Which they clearly state.

    For example: "Mullvad Browser 14.0, based on Firefox ESR 128"

    https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-browser-140-released

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  • [+] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I had to switch away because of incompatible websites (Cloudflare hates it) but Pale Moon is still hanging around.

    Source available here.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Looks nice. First thing I noticed is that their homepage works without JS. However I am surprised that they didn't remove the account syncing stuff, which could also be achieved with an extension.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago

    No, Pleaso no, god no

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I use LibreWolf and Tor. I don't care what Mozilla does. The garbage will be removed from the forks.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    At what point does removing garbage become so complicated that they just stop merging anything in at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    The article quotes him as saying:

    AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

    No big deal. If it turns out to be unethical it will be switched off in Librewolf.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Can they rename the browser to Fireslop?

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    So I'm not ready to burn it all to the ground just yet. Mostly because chromium is still so much worse but also because, at least so far, I can disable that and I understand that "ai is money" for fundraising.

    But... anyone have any thoughts on the various forks like waterfox and the other one? I don't mind grabbing the extensions I need on a new install but I DO need a way to be able to send tabs between devices. In theory that is something I can selfhost but I am not aware of a good solution.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Tldr: Zen is Arc Browser before they went AI brain worm but firefox based.

    I like Zen browser because of their workspace thing. There's pinned tabs, but with zen each workspace can have its own pinned tabs. I still van set a global pinned tabs for all workspaces. And they work great with firefox containers. Each workspace can have a default container. So that way my work workspace can have only my work google account signed in, and my personal only with ny personal etc.

    But ine of the major bugs though is that sometimes your tabs can just go poof. Had it happened to me earlier in the year, managed to restore my tabs somehow. Reported the bug but I don't see progress on the issue tracker as far as I ca understand.

    If syncing netween desktop and monile is a concern, zen still uses firefox sync.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    so long as it's optional, local, and private.

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    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Guess I'm using Links2 now...

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Is KDE browser hanging around still? I know apple based their browser off of it.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    God I can't wait until Servo is viable

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  • The fact that its opt-out means you are more identifiable.

    It harvests data by default. It has to.

    The man MBA'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.

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    No, but it’s still based on Chromium which killed off effective ad blocking.

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