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Mozilla's Firefox Browser turns 20. :firefox:

Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. Mozilla celebrated its 20th anniversary of Firefox with new and upcoming features like tab previews, marking up PDFs, tab grouping and Mozilla's exploration of AI, via mozilla.ai, gets more cautious support.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/132.0/whatsnew/

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Mozilla is also thinking about how AI will change how people browse the web. There, the organization is mostly looking at giving people choice. It’s starting to build some smaller models into the browser already, mostly around translation, but with Firefox 130, it also introduced a model that automatically adds alt text for PDF images, for example. For all of this work with AI models, Mozilla plans to follow the Open Source Initiative’s guidance for what constitutes an open source model.

<https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/help-us-improve-our-alt-text-generation-model/>
The movement (advocacy for choice, privacy and transparency) continues. But web browsers and the battle for browser market share no longer lead that movement, according to a former Mozilla executive.

"Firefox turns 20 today!" said CEO Laura Chambers in a social media post. "It’s so inspiring to think of all we’ve achieved together to keep the internet open and people-first. Firefox has always been more than just a browser – it’s a movement powered by those who believe in choice, privacy and transparency. Thank you to our community and everyone who has contributed to this impact, and helped make Firefox what it is today."

<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chamberslaura_firefox-turns-20-today-its-so-inspiring-activity-7260782133881810945-zkp8/>