Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.

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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    • lando55@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      You could always go Safari, at the rate Apple is going with Ai integration you should be good for… well forever really 🤣

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        Safari is only available on Apple hardware and operating systems though

        • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          Ladybird is an open-source web browser developed by the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on development of the browser.[1] It is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.[2] An alpha release is planned in 2026,[3][4] beta release is expected in 2027, and a stable release for general public in 2028.[5] Originally a component of SerenityOS, it is now being developed as a standalone project.[6] The initiative is funded entirely through donations, with Cloudflare, FUTO, Shopify, and 37signals among its sponsors. Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team. Unlike SerenityOS, it will also use other open source libraries for development.[2] An ad blocking feature is planned.[7] Unlike most new web browsers, Ladybird does not rely on Chromium or Firefox and uses its own rendering engine and JavaScript engine.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser)

          • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Yeah that’s what I’m saying. I watched some interview awhile back, but when I went to install it it was not available yet. Ok fine 2026 - will check it out

            • Lyubo@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              But don’t have high expectations. It definitely will be bad. It will be only for testing with hopes that it will get good some day. For now Librewolf/ Fennec, Millvad/ Firefox Focus and Tor are good in my opinion.

      • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        When clicking Download

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        …yeah

        Seamonkey is barely maintained.

          • Mesophar@pawb.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            The point is that it does not inspire confidence when that is the introduction… (You can also file the bug report, or I could, but you are the one championing it)

            • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Indeed, that was my point. I am not sure that Mozilla pays someone to work on it, at this point. It’s likely the passion project of a couple of employees.