1994
Netscape's internal code name for its browser was Mozilla, which stands for Mosaic Killer.
“The internal code name that they use, and they continue to refer to the actual browser code itself, is Mozilla, which stands for Mosaic Killer.”
Topic
Mozilla
14 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2000s
Eich says the first Safari had private windows and a third-party cookie blocker, which Firefox lacked at the time.
“Mozilla did not lead on privacy as well as Steve Jobs did at Apple. The very first Safari had private windows.”
2003
Eich says AOL's Ted Leonsis gave $2 million over two years to spin out the Mozilla project in 2003.
“Ted did the right thing and gave us $2 million over two years to spin out the Mozilla project.”
2003
Eich says he and Dave Hyatt wrote a 2003 Mozilla roadmap proposing separate single-purpose apps, leading to Firefox and Thunderbird.
“Dave Hyatt and I wrote the roadmap update for Mozilla in 2003 that said, let's make one app do one thing well.”
2026
Praveen Akkiraju says Mozilla found 271 bugs in the latest Firefox using the model he calls MITOS, with only about three being high-severity CVEs.
“They found 271 bugs, uh, using MITOS, which is kind of amazing.”
2026
The CXOTalk host announced that the next episode, two weeks later, would feature the chief technology officer of Mozilla.
“Two weeks from today, we're talking with the chief technology officer of Mozilla.”
2026
Mozilla plans to release a State of Open Source AI report, with enterprise case studies, in July.
“Mozilla sometime in July will be releasing what we're calling the State of Open Source AI report.”
Undated
Mozilla's Otari, a model router, was previously named Any LLM.
“one of them that we call Otari. It used to be called Any LLM.”
Undated
Mozilla AI released Octinus, a fully open-source agentic workflow system that connects tools such as email, Notion and Zapier.
“the Moz AI team has something that they've released that they call Octinus. It's a fully open source, um, agentic workflow system.”
Undated
Mozilla AI has a product called CQ, which Krikorian describes as Stack Overflow for agents, for sharing learning between agents.
“We have something that we call CQ that I jokingly call Stack Overflow for agents.”
Undated
Krikorian says Mozilla has only about $1 billion to deploy, small compared to what frontier AI labs raise.
“I like to jokingly say to people that Mozilla only has $1 billion to deploy in the grand scheme of things.”
Undated
Mozilla has restructured into a portfolio of companies, including Mozilla Corporation (Firefox) and Mozilla AI, each with a different business model.
“Mozilla has undergone a pretty big restructuring itself, and so now we're a portfolio of companies, all with slightly different business models”
Undated
Hugging Face is part of Mozilla's venture portfolio, according to Krikorian, and Mozilla is partnering with it on an open AI stack.
“We're starting to work with all the Hugging Faces of the world. Who's actually in the VC portfolio.”
Undated
A Mozilla engineer at MozVC could have run up roughly a $10,000 API bill in a month but was on a $200 monthly subscription.
“one of the engineers was effectively could have racked up a 10,000 API bill, uh, this month.”
Episodes
- 15 Feb 2022The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)1h 43m
- 27 Jul 2021Andreessen Horowitz Part I2h 6m
- 9 Jun 2026Mozilla CTO: Why Most Enterprises Don't Control Their AI57m
- 16 May 2026Enterprise AI: Shadow AI and Agentic Risk - CIO advice42m
- 3 May 2026Agentic AI in the Enterprise 2026 | CXOTalk #91655m