Mozilla enters the world of premium services with premium Firefox

Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit Mozilla developer and developer of the Firefox Web browser, has launched a new premium service for businesses using its open source browser called Firefox Premium Support.

A little over a year after Mozilla announced Firefox Quantum for Enterprise, the non-profit organization launched a new paid service starting at $ 10 per user.

This is the second commercial service launched by Mozilla last week, during which the Foundation launched a new paid consumer service (Firefox VPN) within the private Firefox network (Firefox private network).

Firefox VPN is still in beta and is only available to US users using Firefox on desktop computers,

The organization had already launched a $ 10 a month trial service in partnership with ProtonVPN, the encrypted email provider (Proton).

The Firefox browser developer is now working on providing a new offering for browser-based businesses in enterprise environments with a separate support plan.

Premium Firefox support – priced at $ 10 per supported installation – offers many benefits, including the ability to send bugs, get security-critical bug fixes, and even contribute to his browser and his road map.

By focusing on user privacy, Mozilla hopes to offer an attractive alternative to Chrome, Edge and Internet Explorer as a nonprofit organization like Google or Microsoft, as well as a strong support for open source software.

In recent months, Mozilla has been trying to focus more on paid services since its president, Chris Beard, has confirmed its intention to launch a premium version of Firefox.

Mozilla's revenue comes mainly from the fact that Google is Firefox's default search engine, but it's critical that the organization look beyond the search giant because it claims to be a vendor. tools and products focused on confidentiality.