Probably the most practical idea Firefox has had to maintain and possibly build up its market share in a long time.
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 <i>really</i> hurts Firefox.
this is move that should have been done a long time ago + with a bundled vpn or equivalent of a tailscale in the browser.<p>Mozilla would have made tons of money.
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
This feature ships in Firefox for a few years IIRC? <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...</a>
If its first concern why would you use a browser that has ben caught injecting affiliate codes?
Does this mean they will remove "AI controls" (i.e. a way to completely shut all LLM shit off) from normal Firefox?
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.
No public price information. I wonder how much they charge.
It's enterprise, so the cost is 500k unless you don't want to pay so much, then it's 50k.
That's how you know it's enterprise!
If you have to ask the question, you're probably not going to like the answer.
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.<p>Solid props to Mozilla for this one. Good job.
Right?!? There's a lot of negative sentiment on the comments here on HN but probably from people that don't understand locked down corps and other higher-security work environments where these features are needed. Plus not relying on Microsoft/Google is always a good thing. I can definitely see this being useful in hospitals, government orgs, etc.
Not only revenue but enterprise users are valuable market share. Think of things like Slack calling which last I checked don't work in Firefox unless you spoof the user-agent. More enterprise users will force better Firefox support in a huge variety of websites which will benefit all Firefox users.
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.<p>Seriously, this place is so damn negative these days, but not even constructively.
And yet, still no simple way to self host the their syncserver (syncstorage-rs) without the mozilla account abomination.
Are you using, or planning to use, the Enterprise version, and feel like this functionality is missing? Or is the complain about the regular release? I'm asking because I fail to see the link...
<i>Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first.</i><p>Thanks for the open admission that regular Firefox does not.
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> Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first.<p>So what before came as main advantage of Firefox is now dropped and put behind the paywall?
Once again Mozilla invents stuff noone wants. Its just incredible how an "org" with so much income fails again and again
They need to try. I also feeling like there’s likley growing demand globally; like they mentioned. A need for greater digital sovereignty.
It's income they don't really earn.<p>Like a rich kid living on daddy's money, they're somewhat disconnected from the reality that most people exist in.
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