{"id":50470,"date":"2025-12-16T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50470"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:42:50","slug":"new-mozilla-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/16\/new-mozilla-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mozilla CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/leadership\/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo\/\">Anthony Enzor-Demeo<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46288491\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/leadership\/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo\/\">\n<p>Today, I step into the role of CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/\">Mozilla Corporation<\/a>. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and building technology that puts them first.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<ul><li>First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice &mdash; something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.<\/li>\n<li>Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value. <\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/845216\/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo\">David Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/845216\/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo\">\n<p>Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there&rsquo;s still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/820196\/mozilla-firefox-ai-window-browser\">an AI Mode coming to Firefox<\/a> 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. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not incentivized to push one model or the other,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;So we&rsquo;re going to try to go to market with multiple models.&rdquo; Some will be open-source models available to anyone. Others will be private, &ldquo;Mozilla-hosted cloud options,&rdquo; he says. And, yes, some will be from the big companies in the space &mdash; Enzor-DeMeo didn&rsquo;t name Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT, but it&rsquo;s not hard to guess.<\/p><p>Enzor-DeMeo has been at Mozilla for almost exactly a year. Until now, he&rsquo;s been leading the team building Mozilla&rsquo;s Firefox browser, which, in so many ways, is the thing that makes Mozilla go. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At some point, though, Enzor-DeMeo will have to tend to Mozilla&rsquo;s own business. &ldquo;I do think we need revenue diversification away from Google,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t necessarily believe we need revenue diversification away from the browser.&rdquo; It seems he thinks a combination of subscription revenue, advertising, and maybe a few search and AI placement deals can get that done. He&rsquo;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&rsquo;d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn&rsquo;t want to do that. It feels off-mission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/12\/16\/mozilla_corporation_new_ceo\/\">Thomas Claburn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/12\/16\/mozilla_corporation_new_ceo\/\">\n<p>The renewed focus on Firefox within Mozilla Corporation, Surman said, has internal and external explanations. &ldquo;Internally, I think we haven&rsquo;t had the leadership for the last few years to really drive us technically on what&rsquo;s possible with the tech stack we have,&rdquo; he said.\n\n&rdquo;The external reason is really that the market for browsers and the space for innovation over browsers is really in motion again. And people have written browsers off as a commodity. Other people are innovating, and it creates a really good context for us to do the same again and to reinvest there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mamot.fr\/@ploum\/115730935437271047\">ploum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mamot.fr\/@ploum\/115730935437271047\">\n<p>Mozilla has a new CEO who:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Has been at Mozilla for less than a year<\/li>\n<li>Has no prior open source experience (but well in &ldquo;fintech&rdquo; and &ldquo;real estate&rdquo;)<\/li>\n<li>Has a MBA  (aka &ldquo;brainworm diploma&rdquo;)<\/li>\n<li>Is all-in on AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>That&rsquo;s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/05\/ai-in-microsoft-edge\/\">AI in Microsoft Edge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/22\/chatgpt-atlas\/\">ChatGPT Atlas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/12\/ai-in-chrome-neon-and-dia\/\">AI in Chrome, Neon, and Dia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/22\/shutting-down-pocket\/\">Shutting Down Pocket<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/13\/mozilla-also-defends-google-revenue-sharing-agreement\/\">Mozilla Also Defends Google Revenue Sharing Agreement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/mozilla-changes-firefox-terms-of-use\/\">Mozilla Changes Firefox Terms of Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/15\/the-state-of-mozilla\/\">The State of Mozilla<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/15\/firefox-at-20\/\">Firefox at 20<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"new-mozilla-ceo-update-2025-12-18\">Update (<a href=\"#new-mozilla-ceo-update-2025-12-18\">2025-12-18<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.press\/brunomiguel\/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself\">Bruno<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46299934\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/infosec.press\/brunomiguel\/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself\">\n<p>In an interview with &ldquo;The Verge&rdquo;, the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least, was on the table in some form and at some point.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It may be just me, but I read this as &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to &#x1F61C; &#x1F61C; but I&rsquo;ll kill AdBlockers in Firefox for buckerinos &#x1F602;&rdquo;. This disappoints and saddens me a lot, and I hope I&rsquo;m wrong.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Killing one of its advantages over the Chromium engine, being able to have a fucking adblocker that's actually useful, and that nowadays is a fucking security feature due to malvertising, will be another nail in the coffin, IMHO.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2025\/12\/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-ai-browser-strategy\">Joey Sneddon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46309039\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2025\/12\/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-ai-browser-strategy\">\n<p>Being able to opt-out is agency (I guess), but if diverting revenue through AI is part of this &ldquo;double bottom line&rdquo;, how easy will &ldquo;easily&rdquo; actually be?<\/p>\n<p>A single button presented on first run, or will it mean diving through menus, opening <code>about:config<\/code>, or configuring an enterprise policy?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The logic on why this benefits end users is somewhat circular: to fight Big AI, Firefox will host a Big AI buffet where we pick our preferred flavour of algorithmic mediation from a limited menu, which in turn gooses Big AI to further silo us from each other. <em>Agency!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As someone who chose Firefox because it <em>wasn&rsquo;t<\/em> doing the same things other companies were, was committed to open standards and championing an open web where the little guys&rsquo; needs weren&rsquo;t overlooked for the Goliaths&rsquo;, I&rsquo;m kind of left wondering who&rsquo;s fighting for us?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/06\/chrome-warning-about-manifest-v2-extensions\/\">Chrome Warning About Manifest V2 Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Enzor-Demeo (Hacker News): Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and building technology that puts them first. [&#8230;] First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. 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