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Firefox Enterprise

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  • DoctorOW
    As a Firefox user, I hope this works. As someone who works in IT, people are going to try and install Chrome at all costs and your ticket queues will be clogged with people saying a computer is broken or has no internet access if it doesn't have Chrome on it.
  • nicoburns
    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 really hurts Firefox.
  • rkagerer
    Can someone expound on the DLP features? E.g.:Can you do basic string pattern matching to prevent leaks of sensitive data?In the case of a credit card, for instance, how would you distinguish between a user legitimately "buying something on a website" from "posting customer card to a forum" or "sending to a chatbot" (or even "inappropriately making purchase with customer card")?Can you match the data itself against an allow/flag/deny list?Can you run data through a local or corporately-situated LLM instructed to "Assess whether this looks potentially sensitive" via a given set of rules, and flag it to the user or a supervisor to proceed/abort?How extensive are in-built features, and what kind of hooks and feedback/UI interaction is available for third party integrations?
  • PaulHoule
    Probably the most practical idea Firefox has had to maintain and possibly build up its market share in a long time.
  • Hugsbox
    Do I work in the twilight zone or something? The company I work for is trying to phase out Firefox, and I'm getting multiple complaints a week from non-technical users that they can't open Firefox anymore and they don't want to use any other browser.
  • Kuyawa
    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
  • koolba
    Hell yah. This is exactly the type of thing they need to do to take their mouths off the teats of advertising companies like Google.Make privacy at the enterprise level the first class feature.Too bad people won’t pay for any of this.
  • mosdl
    20 years too late unfortunately. They turned their backs on enterprise when the Netscape org was killed off and lost a lot of momentum because of that.
  • SloopJon
    I'm sure this is great for improving adoption on the admin side, but I'm also sure that I would hate using a locked-down Firefox.My company has management software that nags me about the latest Firefox version, which is annoying, because I use the extended support release instead. Less frequent updates, and fewer sudden changes like the AI features people have been grumbling about.Incidentally, 153.5.0esr was released today, with 140 reaching EoL.
  • sdcfgy
    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.
  • 50208
    I'm skeptical that Firefox can pull this off ... but this is a product that is needed by business right now. I wish them luck.
  • dzonga
    this is move that should have been done a long time ago + with a bundled vpn or equivalent of a tailscale in the browser.Mozilla would have made tons of money.
  • ihuman
    How is this different from autoconfig.js, firefox.cfg, and other `defaults/pref` options? Orgs can already use that to manage and lock down Firefox preferences, ban/force extensions, and more
  • zecg
    Does this mean they will remove "AI controls" (i.e. a way to completely shut all LLM shit off) from normal Firefox?
  • timcobb
    Finally something that makes sense from these guys!
  • CodesInChaos
    No public price information. I wonder how much they charge.
  • alicelik1980
    It looks good, but it's hard to break habits.
  • gustavus
    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.Solid props to Mozilla for this one. Good job.
  • unethical_ban
    Anything that makes enterprise management of FF easier is a win for the browser environment.That said, I'm seeing enterprise security companies selling soft forks of Chrome with all sorts of inspection and policy built in. Basically, instead of doing DLP/URL filtering/risk management on a MITM box, they're pushing it to the browser. This helps remove the need for TLS decryption, and the need to funnel their browser traffic to any particular tunnel endpoint.I guess what I'm saying is... Firefox might want to take a look at what those companies are doing to Chrome and figure if there is a way to make it easy to plug that kind of security into their browser.edit: just noticed this is a paid service. So I triple down on what I said. Companies that are "buying" browsers are buying browsers with deep inspection and security features baked in. I don't know if they'll buy support for FF when Edge is free.
  • SuperNinKenDo
    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.Seriously, this place is so damn negative these days, but not even constructively.
  • ex1fm3ta
    Yesss this was needed so much.
  • j45
    This is an interesting and seemingly obvious idea. Having an independent take on these matters including AI is valuable.
  • ChrisArchitect
  • shevy-java
    They are trying. But it won't work.I think if you really want to build something like that, you need real momentum. Perhaps the ladybird folks can succeed here, the future will tell. I don't think Mozilla has enough momentum left.https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/browser-market-share-202...Firefox is between 2% and 3% now.
  • ltbarcly3
    Prediction: Nobody is going to use this. They won't get a single sale.
  • s17tnet
    And yet, still no simple way to self host the their syncserver (syncstorage-rs) without the mozilla account abomination.
  • gamegod
    For all the garbage Mozilla puts out, this is actually a good idea.
  • locitra
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  • InsidiousWombat
    > Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first.So what before came as main advantage of Firefox is now dropped and put behind the paywall?
  • VCFundedGenYer
    Just seems like GPO options for Firefox, which already existed.Page says a lot of nothing. Or just restates things that already were in place.
  • jqpabc123
    Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first.Thanks for the open admission that regular Firefox does not.
  • user3939382
    Mozilla sold out its values with ads, telemetry etc hence the existence of LibreWolf, which should have no reason to exist.I manage these types of decisions and won’t use it.
  • fractalf
    Once again Mozilla invents stuff noone wants. Its just incredible how an "org" with so much income fails again and again
  • wejick
    This landing page smells like AI slop. I hate it not because it's AI generated, but the fact that reading more doesn't give me any further understanding.>Firefox Enterprise. Different at the core. Stronger because of it.What's this even means
  • sixhobbits
    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