Firefox takes aim at the enterprise browser market

There’s growing talk of digital sovereignty as enterprises rethink past consolidation decisions made in the name of simplicity. Mozilla, developer of Firefox, argues that a “very specific, very important layer” has been mostly missing from that conversation: The browser. To that end, the company has unveiled Firefox Enterprise in a bid to diversify the browser engine to support privacy, control, and security. The new offering combines the Firefox browser with a management console that enterprises can run on their own infrastructure using their own tooling. Companies get a full view of their data and can govern how it moves, and IT teams can manage policy, access, and set controls around AI use. Firefox is already deployed across thousands of organizations and used by roughly 200 million people each month, Mozilla said. It is built on Mozilla’s independent Gecko engine, the only major browser engine developed outside Google and Apple. “If all your options are built with the same technology underneath, ‘choice’ is a lie. So is control,” Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo observed in the blog post announcing the product. The promise of Firefox Enterprise “Firefox is hardly the first bro…

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