Anything but a web browser

Chronicling Mozilla's unofficial motto

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,".

Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce multi-year partnership

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.

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. In 2023, it funded a crypto wallet and a gig worker app, both things very aligned with Mozilla's values apparently.

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 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