Der neue CEO von Mozilla befürwortet eine KI-Zukunft für Firefox | Anthony Enzor-DeMeo sagt, dass es seiner Meinung nach Platz für einen anderen Browser gibt, sogar für einen KI-Browser – solange man ihm vertrauen kann

Already swapped to LibreWolf.

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>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.
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>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.” Some will be open-source models available to anyone. Others will be private, “Mozilla-hosted cloud options,” he says. And, yes, some will be from the big companies in the space — Enzor-DeMeo didn’t name Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT, but it’s not hard to guess.
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>Enzor-DeMeo has been at Mozilla for almost exactly a year. Until now, he’s been leading the team building Mozilla’s Firefox browser, which, in so many ways, is the thing that makes Mozilla go. Firefox is the company’s most visible product; it’s the biggest moneymaker, thanks mostly to a deal that gives Google default search placement; and it’s the place where Mozilla gets to actually put its values to work. Enzor-DeMeo spent 2025 racing to make Firefox a more compelling product, adding things like tab groups, while also trying to figure out how the browser should integrate with AI.
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>In our conversation, Enzor-DeMeo returns often to two things: that Mozilla cares about and wants to preserve the open web, and that the open web needs new business models. Mozilla’s ad business is important and growing, he says, and he worries “about things going behind paywalls, becoming more closed off.” He says the internet’s content business isn’t exactly his fight, but that Mozilla believes in the value of an open and free (and thus ad-supported) web.
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>At some point, though, Enzor-DeMeo will have to tend to Mozilla’s own business. “I do think we need revenue diversification away from Google,” he says, “but I don’t necessarily believe we need revenue diversification away from the browser.” It seems he thinks a combination of subscription revenue, advertising, and maybe a few search and AI placement deals can get that done. He’s also bullish that things like built-in VPN and a privacy service called Monitor can get more people to pay for their browser. He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

It will be interesting to see the direction that this organization goes in the future, but hopefully they will be successful at encouraging an open web, remaining financially viable, and also not eroding user privacy and choices in the process. So far at least, the product that Mozilla has been putting out (as far as Firefox is concerned) has been reasonably compelling.

If there is an option to exclude or disable the AI then I’m fine with their stance.  If AI is forced, then I’ll be on the lookout for a FireFox fork.

Hey look next year I’ll be getting a new browser. I just need a regular one for internet usage. Not riddled with AI filth.

I hate AI so much. It’s actively ruining huge portions of our lives, but people love it because it allows them to be lazier. It’s just sad.

Well fuck me

Mozilla really is digging its own grave, with cannibalizing their very niche existing user base that prioritizes privacy, security, and going against the mainstream data mining and ad model that all other browsers stand for.

Yeah, but you can’t trust it.

Getting seriously silly now I read yesterday some LG televisions were being updated with copilot.

Like finding the most trustworthy dingo to babysit your kid

This frustrates me but every time Firefox adds in more AI stuff someone explains how to go into the developer options and turn them off so I will keep doing that until they do not allow even that and then I’ll go somewhere else.

I will be bookmarking Librewolf after the comments here, just in case.

Noooooooo leave Firefox alone you asshole!

dude my text fields start to bog down and become unusable even on a clean install sometimes..

The AI search assistant in Firefox is actually quite helpful. Contextualizing multiple search results into a coherent answer to a question is actually a fantastic use of AI,, rather than all the other magical bullshit that AI can’t do.