[EVENT CLOSED] Thanks for joining our AMA with the Firefox Leadership Team!

[Jon]

Nov 14 UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who has submitted questions so far—keep them coming, the event starts in a few hours. In the meantime, meet the team of Mozilla employees that will be answering them.

Clockwise starting from the top left in the image, we are:

• Mike Conca, Director of Product, Platform
• Vicky Chin, VP, Engineering, Desktop, Mobile, and Pocket 
• Raja Jacob, Senior Director, Firefox User Experience 
• Devin Sandoz, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Firefox
• Bobby Holley, CTO, Firefox
• Carolyn O’Hara, Sr. Director, New Tab & Content Discovery
• Andrew Overholt, VP, Engineering, Platform 
• Tapan Kamdar, Sr. Director, Product Management, Search & AI

See you in the comments! 

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Hi everyone,

The internet has changed a lot since 2004 when Firefox began as a community project. Today, Firefox remains at the forefront of championing privacy, open innovation and choice. And while the last 20 years have been transformative, the best is yet to come.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Firefox leadership team at Mozilla is joining us to host a very special AMA here on Mozilla Connect to celebrate Firefox’s 20th anniversary, and answer any questions you may have about what’s next for Firefox. 

As part of our anniversary celebrations, we’ve created a website page reflecting on what we’ve created together so far with videos highlighting Firefox’s evolution since 2004 and your favorite features. You’ll also find fan art and a hat tip to our incredible contributor community, who support Firefox users every step of the way.

This AMA is the continuation of a conversation we started on Reddit in June. We appreciate how actively engaged this community has been in helping us improve Mozilla products. This time around, we want to hear what’s most important to you about Firefox’s future. 

In the spirit of our birthday celebrations, we’ll also be gifting select participants in this thread with anniversary swag. Keep an eye on your Connect inbox (post-AMA) for a message from Mozilla staff.      

We are opening this thread up to replies starting today, November 8, and we’ll be joining you live with the Firefox leadership team on Thursday, November 14 from 18:00 - 20:00 UTC (time converter) to answer as many of your questions as we can. 

As always, we ask that you adhere to our Community Guidelines when posting. We also encourage you to show support for others by voting up your favorite comments using the thumbs up feature. 

See you on November 14th!

Event Details

Where: Right here! Questions and answers in the comment section ⬇️ 

When: Thursday, Nov 14, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC

Topic(s): Firefox 20th anniversary - reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the future

[cohara]

Hi @Synchro - love to hear that you are a happy Firefox user! The short answer here is that the platforms are at different levels of maturity and the usage patterns on mobile and desktop are often different - sometimes parity makes sense and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes a lack of parity is inadvertent or the product of different development timelines. But this feedback / callout on shortcuts is super helpful. Good to know especially about the rearranging ability; we'll investigate!

[Synchro]

Thank you for your answer. I will hope the team working on mobile version will get all resources they need to creat flexible and powerful UI and to implement all the features they and users want.

[Kvin]

On Linux, Firefox is available as a container, but I also want Firefox Portable for Windows, it's convenient and more secure

[Jon]

Thanks all for your participation today!  

The two hours are up and the team has to go attend other meetings, but we will try to follow up on unanswered questions here in this thread. 

Oh and SWAG! To keep the celebrations going, we’ll be reaching out via DM to give swag to a few select participants. Keep an eye out. 

This was a lot of fun and we hope to do more of these moving forward 😀

[tilwiti]

Thank you so much for such a warm AMA, it solved a lot of my rather pressing concerns.

[bkidane]

Yes thank you all for celebrating our birthday with us🎉. In lei of cake, we have red panda and 20th anniversary inspired zoom backgrounds as a small parting gift and a token of our appreciation.

[tilwiti]

noice 👌