Hacker News debates whether enterprises will adopt or pay
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The announcement topped Hacker News with over 300 points and 149 comments; commenters split between seeing it as overdue for Firefox's enterprise viability and doubting companies will pay for it over free Chrome or Edge management.
“A lot of large businesses ban Firefox because they don't have these kind of controls.”
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2 outlets Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise
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🦊 Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, offering organizations a browser solution with more control over digital infrastructure. It targets European markets and emphasizes independence from dominant web browsers. https:// alternativeto.net/news/2026/10 /mozilla-launches-firefox-enterprise-with-on-premises-management-for-european-companies/
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I've found this to be one of those issues that just seems completely normal when you first hear it but when you dig into the actual users, the "why" starts to get lost.My anec-data on the subject seems to imply it affects a very specific segment of people: The "I only use a (usually Windows) computer at work" folks. The odd part of that is that…
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Mozilla presenta Firefox Enterprise per mettere al primo posto la privacy, l'indipendenza e il controllo dei clienti «Impedisci che i dati sensibili escano dal browser e offri a dipendenti, collaboratori e utenti BYOD un accesso sicuro e basato sull'identità alle applicazioni interne, senza la necessità dell'infrastruttura di accesso remoto…
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Agreed. This is a great move by Mozilla - great timing, great vision, great potential for revenue.Managing browsers - portals to almost every use and risk - is a PITA and I don't trust Chrome for confidentiality of data or users. Access to actual Mozilla personnel (engineers?) would be a big differentiator. But I wonder about a couple of things:1)…
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Firefox Enterprise: https://www. firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/ Discussion: http:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0070302
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I think that I had good instinct by posting the following a few days ago:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063676Honestly it is probably not bad for Mozilla to start such a business, but I have the feeling that it is not in the spirit of "open source"/"freedom for users" Mozilla that we used to have before an Uber exec became in charge.Now it…
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Folks here don't understand how big of a market this is. Island just raised a $400 million Series F at $6.4 billion valuation: https://www.island.io/press/island-announces-400-million-ser...Mozilla is also very, very far behind in this race. But the potential is real. Enterprises have both the budget and the motivation to care about DLP (including…
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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…
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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…
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> people are going to try and install Chrome at all costsMozilla might have anticipated this when they wrote "Diversify your browser engine" as one of the selling points.https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/firefox-enterprise/Diversification is a good idea, personally I use both Chrome and Firefox every day (and sometimes Lynx).
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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…
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Yep, we know how much work we need to here (I work at Mozilla leading new products and this is in my portfolio). We're being very deliberate about how we go after the opportunity and are focusing right on enterprises (in Europe to start) that can take advantage of what we can offer now, while we move quickly to add new features and capabilities to…
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I'm not sure I understand the goals of this. Will this have any better blocking built in? Or is it just Enterprise governance things? Because I want Firefox to have things like uBlock/uMatrix built in and can be controlled by a centralized list locally hosted. Shit like that would be amazing. Can I tell it to allow/disallow certain sites and…
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For general-purpose use this may be true. For specialized Web-based tools, like access to medical or legal systems, not as much: the users are conditioned to work with a specific browser (many remember MSIE-only apps), and are used to the idea that their workstation has all kinds of Internet access limitations, along with a corporate policy that…
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An earlier company I worked at had this same issue with Internet Explorer. It was after IE had been deprecated by microsoft as a browser but our IT department still had it as a downloadable application. Most of my team's on-call issues were from internal users using IE to access our site, even after we added an IE compatible popup that would tell…
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I don't disagree with any of what you said about the value of an enterprise browser, but if a company is going to implement that, they're also going to want endpoint security that is functionally equivalent to everything you can do with Intune/MDM. The browser is just one part of it.
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I feel like people don't take the Chromium monopoly seriously. Sure, Brave is great, but it's still chromium, making Google have outsized say over how the web behaves. Manifest V3 was the proof, every Chromium browser had to live with it. If this helps Firefox gain ground, I'm all for it.
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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.
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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.
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Every single ounce of sweat put towards an AI feature or redesign or side project (anon email) should have been put towards this, and implemented, a long time ago. And this will ACTUALLY make them more money, and allow them to actually build a better browser.
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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.
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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
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I really hope this works - it could provide sustainable alternate revenue streams for Mozilla, entrench alternative browsers into large deployments, and isn't some hare-brained half-baked idea that damages trust in its existing user base. Godspeed.
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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.
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