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Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo Wants to Challenge Chrome—and Rely Less on Google

Mozilla's new Firefox Enterprise browser promises businesses greater control over their data and A.I. tools. But taking on Google and Microsoft means confronting Mozilla's own dependence on search revenue.

Mozilla wants businesses to pay for Firefox. Not for the browser itself, which remains free, but for something increasingly valuable to companies concerned about their dependence on Big Tech: control.

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Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, is taking aim at Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge with Firefox Enterprise, a new subscription offering launched in early access on Oct. 13. It combines the familiar Firefox browser, built on Mozilla’s independent Gecko engine, with additional security controls and a management console that customers can run on their own infrastructure, either on-premises or in the cloud.

IT teams can centrally manage browser policies and access, govern how data moves through the browser and control which A.I. services employees can use. Mozilla is initially concentrating its sales efforts on France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where questions about digital sovereignty are becoming harder for businesses and governments to ignore.

Firefox Enterprise is sold as an annual subscription. According to Mozilla, pricing combines a platform license scaled to deployment complexity with a capacity charge based on the volume of managed instances. Support and updates are included, with prices negotiated individually rather than published as a standard rate.

“We’re building an enterprise business with the goal of becoming a meaningful part of Mozilla’s revenue,” Hermina Condei, vice president of Firefox Enterprise, told Observer in written comments.

But can Mozilla persuade businesses to pay for an alternative to browsers they already........

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