Firefox Enterprise

sixhobbits

every announcement I see from Mozilla makes me happier that I switched to WaterFox last year and don't have to deal with their shit any more

gustavus

Now this is the kind of Mozilla project I can get behind it focuses on the browser it gives a potential path for revenue and I practically jumped up and down when they announced their bringing in Thunderbird. Solid props to Mozilla for this one. Good job.

s17tnet

And yet, still no simple way to self host the their syncserver (syncstorage-rs) without the mozilla account abomination.

CodesInChaos

No public price information. I wonder how much they charge.

InsidiousWombat

> Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first. So what before came as main advantage of Firefox is now dropped and put behind the paywall?

jqpabc123

Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first. Thanks for the open admission that regular Firefox does not.

zecg

Does this mean they will remove "AI controls" (i.e. a way to completely shut all LLM shit off) from normal Firefox?

sdcfgy

I can't think of a single enterprise who I have worked with or know who'd pay for this when there's Chrome or Edge available.

fractalf

Once again Mozilla invents stuff noone wants. Its just incredible how an "org" with so much income fails again and again

Kuyawa

Does it block ads like Brave without installing extensions? Tracking is one of the worst plagues of modern browsing so blocking all kinds of tracking and fingerprinting should be the first concern in an enterprise. Nothing should leak to the outside world

SuperNinKenDo

So much negativity in here. I mean, I get the antipathy toward Mozilla, but they're trying to find a way to make the actual browser a revenue stream. Yeah it could skew incentives or something, but unless you believe that you, and everyone you know is ready to start a paid subscription to Firefox Personal tomorrow, it's something like this, or more Google deals and pushing "service" integrations. Seriously, this place is so damn negative these days, but not even constructively.

PaulHoule

Probably the most practical idea Firefox has had to maintain and possibly build up its market share in a long time.

nicoburns

This was needed. A lot of large businesses ban Firefox because they don't have these kind of controls. I can't test Firefox on my work computer because company policy prevents it being installed. And that kind of thing really hurts Firefox.

dzonga

this is move that should have been done a long time ago + with a bundled vpn or equivalent of a tailscale in the browser. Mozilla would have made tons of money.

user3939382

Mozilla sold out its values with ads, telemetry etc hence the existence of LibreWolf, which should have no reason to exist. I manage these types of decisions and won’t use it.

DoctorOW

As a Firefox user, I hope this works. As someone who works in IT, people are going to try and install Chrome at all costs and your ticket queues will be clogged with people saying a computer is broken or has no internet access if it doesn't have Chrome on it.

ex1fm3ta

Yesss this was needed so much.

gamegod

For all the garbage Mozilla puts out, this is actually a good idea.

Hugsbox

Do I work in the twilight zone or something? The company I work for is trying to phase out Firefox, and I'm getting multiple complaints a week from non-technical users that they can't open Firefox anymore and they don't want to use any other browser.

shevy-java

They are trying. But it won't work. I think if you really want to build something like that, you need real momentum. Perhaps the ladybird folks can succeed here, the future will tell. I don't think Mozilla has enough momentum left. https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/browser-market-share-202... Firefox is between 2% and 3% now.