Mozilla Corp., which manages the open-source Firefox browser, announced today that Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit foundation. Laura Chambers, a Mozilla board member and entrepreneur with experience at Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay, will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.

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Official Blog Post: A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future

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    9 months ago

    Apple needs to allow 3rd party browser engines.

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      9 months ago

      They will in the EU. Hopefully it’s easy to game the system and sideload a non-safari browser in the future.

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        9 months ago

        This would still force Mozilla to support two browsers on iOS, one for Europe and another for the rest of the world.

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          9 months ago

          Mozilla has 0 browsers for iOS except a skin over Safari.

          So really it would just be a browser for the EU and nothing for everyone else.