Anything but a web browser

Chronicles of the 3% web browser unofficial motto

Wouldn't it be nice to have a working browser that isn't Chrome-based?

Firefox and Exa: Building AI search around people, not platforms

"AI has changed how we browse. Full stop." Holy shit, where to even begin with this? AI made browsing worse, from hallucinating AI "answers" to web-scale denial-of-service by botnets to feed the AI God training, to catastrophic revenue losses from websites that don't get any trafic anymore, sure, AI changed the web, but in horrible ways.

People (increasingly few) are using Firefox to browse the web, nobody wants yet another chatbot interface, read the fucking room.

Mozilla's twitter is now about AI

In 2026, Mozilla's twitter account, @mozilla has been twitting exclusively about AI. There is still their mastodon account, which posted 7 toots since its creation in 2017, with half of them being also about AI.

Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here

"Today Mozilla is publishing its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, built on new analysis and a global survey of 950+ developers, showing that open models are no longer playing catch-up. The performance gap with top proprietary systems like ChatGPT and Claude has narrowed to just 3%, while costs have fallen up to 50x in three years."

Pretty cool heh? You don't see Google Chrome producing reports on the "State of Open Source AI" do you?

Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce multi-year partnership

Firefox is now the "Wrexham AFC Club's Official Web Browser Partner and front-of-kit sponsor for the 2026/27 season", whatever that means. Mozilla Chief Marketing Officer said that "Partnering with Wrexham AFC is a natural fit. At their core, both Wrexham and Firefox are challenger brands that have built passionate global communities by doing work differently and staying true to who they are,".

I would have loved to be in the meeting where the idea of throwing money at a Wales soccer club was spun.

Tabstack: Browsing Infrastructure for AI Agents

Website crawling/spidering at scale, for AI, by Mozilla. Everyone is wondering how this is compatible with the Mozilla manifesto statement, and webmasters around the world are no doubt cheering about it.

Solo from Mozilla

AI-powered websites creator, with cool features like an AI-powered Google Ad Creator, an AI-powered Business Idea Creator and an AI-powered Business Name Creator. No way to export your website though, so lots of fun in perspective if the product is ever sunsetted.

Modern AI Browser

Mozilla's new CEO stepped into his role declaring that "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". With AI being shoehorned every-fucking-where against every users' wishes, it sound like a terrific move.

0DIN

A product "pioneering GenAI bug bounty platform designed to safeguard the future of artificial intelligence", now apparently an "Automated AI Red Teaming by Mozilla". More or less a resking of nvidia's garak scanner.

Introducing Anonym: Raising the bar for privacy-preserving digital advertising

"Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for the advertising industry by ensuring user privacy while delivering effective advertising solutions."

As per anonym's website, "Anonym is cutting edge ad tech built to maximize ad performance while keeping user data private. Sitting between advertisers and the world's biggest platforms, Anonym unlocks results neither can realize alone."

Tl;dr it's a TEE-based mass-surveillance anonymisation tool for advetisers. Why not, but everything is closed-source and the website doesn't say much. A better way to "raise the bar" would be to stop enabling plantary-scale tracking instead of whitewashing it with complicated technical constructs.

Building open, private AI with the Mozilla Builders Accelerator

"This program is designed to empower independent AI and machine learning engineers with the resources and support they need to thrive. It aims to cultivate a more innovative AI ecosystem, and it’s one of Mozilla’s key initiatives to make AI meaningfully impactful — alongside efforts like Mozilla.ai, the Responsible AI Challenge and the Rise25 Awards."

It's always exciting to see Mozilla finding new ways to burn money on anything not-Firefox related, even moreso when it's on AI stuff!

Releasing a new paper on openness and artificial intelligence

"For the past six months, the Columbia Institute of Global Politics and Mozilla have been working with leading AI scholars and practitioners to create a framework on openness and AI. Today, we are publishing a paper that lays out this new framework."

Pretty cool to see Mozilla investing into reports on AI, since it's more or less its raison d'être. Not.

AI Chatbot

Starting with Firefox 133, there is now a sidebar in Firefox with an AI chatbot, so that users can contribute to the biggest planetary-incinerating economic bubble ever form the comfort of their browser.

Orbit, by Mozilla

An AI-fulled "productivity tool" to sumarize web content. Thankfully killed in 2025

Mozilla.ai

Mozilla creates, a "startup — and a community — that will build a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem", an initial $30M investment from Mozilla.

Mozilla acquires Fakespot

Mozilla acquires Fakespot, a startup building an AI-based tool to find flag product reviews on e-commerce websites. The service was shut down 2 years later in July 2025.

Mozilla's Mastodon instance

Mozilla ran its down Mastodon instance, announced at the end of 2022, entered private beta in May 2023, and shut down in 2024.

Mozilla launches first-of-its-kind venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies, products

Likley looking for new ways to burn money, Mozilla announced Mozilla Ventures, investing $35M into "internet companies that protect privacy, decentralize digital power and build more trustworthy AI — and that also have big potential for commercial success."

The first 3 startups to get money were a company "using advanced security and AI technology to keep patient data secure and advance medical collaboration" whatever that means, another doing deleting your old posts on social media (with an enterprise version), and a password manager.

A "fun" game would be to try to to reconcile the companies in theportfolio with Mozilla's manifesto.

Mozilla VPN

Because everyone is launching a VPN service (whitelabel Mullvad), why not Mozilla. It shouldn't be confused with Firefox ≥ 149 built-in VPN.

Firefox Relay

Email relaying from @mozmail.com addresses. Feels like writing a blog article about plus addressing would have been cheaper.

Mozilla Send

Firefox Send, a website to share files too big to send by email. Made public in March 2019, shut down in July 2020, as it wasn't designed with abuse-resistance in mind, and was thus, of course, abused to death for phishing and malware distribution.

Mozilla Monitor

HaveIbeenpwned, with a interface by Mozilla, and a partnership with the OneRep stalking company.

Mozilla Acquires Pocket

In 2017, Mozilla acquired Pocket, a read-it-later service for an undisclosed sum. It was shut down 8 years later in July 2025, but at least its source code got dumped on github