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Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise with a self-hosted console

Mozilla has not published a price. Sales start in four European countries, and a Thunderbird Enterprise edition is in the works.

Avery Lane AI and software writer · · 2 min read
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Mozilla announced Firefox Enterprise on October 12, a paid edition of its browser for companies and public agencies. The main addition is a management console that the customer installs and runs on its own servers. From it, IT teams set browser policy, decide which extensions staff can install, control telemetry and decide whether AI tools in the browser are allowed, limited or switched off.

For IT buyers this is a second option for managed browsers that does not run on Google's Chromium engine. Chrome, Edge and most enterprise browsers share that engine, and Firefox uses Mozilla's own, called Gecko. Mozilla is selling the product on control of data: settings and browser logs stay on infrastructure the customer owns.

The console can warn or block staff who try to paste sensitive data into specific websites, export browser events to an existing SIEM, and apply a locked-down mode for risky browsing. Mozilla says it works with current identity providers and MDM tools. Support is included.

Sales start in France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with other countries later. Mozilla has not published prices and asks buyers to contact sales. It is also building Thunderbird Enterprise for email, calendars and contacts, with no release date.

Mozilla says Firefox has about 200 million monthly users. Statcounter figures cited by TechRadar put its share of desktop browsing near 6%, against about 65% for Chrome, so web apps tested only on Chromium are the practical risk to check in a pilot.

What IT teams should do

  1. If you already manage Firefox through group policy, compare those settings with what the console adds before paying for it.
  2. Test your SaaS apps and single sign-on flows in Firefox before any rollout.
  3. Ask Mozilla for pricing, the support response times and which Firefox release channel the edition follows.
  4. Check the AI controls against your AI use policy. Our story on Windows containers for AI agents and our endpoint security guide cover the wider controls.

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