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Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser" (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 day ago by SwooshBakery624@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers.

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo has been named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was SVP of Firefox from 2004 to July 2005 and then from July until now was the GM of Firefox at Mozilla. He's written a public message today in his first day serving as the new chief executive for Mozilla.

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."

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[–] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not really. Mullvad Browser is a Tor Browser fork. WebLibre is a Gecko-engine based Flutter browser written from scratch.

[–] who@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tor Browser is a modified Firefox ESR, which is just Firefox with less frequent releases.

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Mullvad Browser is literally based on Firefox ESR. Which they clearly state.

For example: "Mullvad Browser 14.0, based on Firefox ESR 128"

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-browser-140-released

[–] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but they and the Tor Project are making enough changes that Mullvad Browser can be considered a hard fork rather than a soft fork.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

No they still base it off of Firefox so it's a soft fork. Hard fork is when you branch off and don't do a resync again.