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Today, we are very pleased to announce two new additions to the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors: Jambu Palaniappan and David Parry-Jones.

As we build the next chapter of Mozilla, we've been focused on bringing people onto our Board who combine deep operating experience with a real commitment to the values Mozilla stands for. Jambu and David bring deep experience building and leading technology businesses, and each brings a unique perspective to our Board.

Jambu Palaniappan is the Chief Executive Officer of Checkatrade, where he drives the company's mission of Powering Great Work. The home improvement platform connects consumers across the UK with quality tradespeople - every year, Checkatrade improves millions of homes and delivers billions of pounds of work to small and medium-sized businesses.

Before joining Checkatrade, Jambu was Managing Partner and Head of Europe at OMERS Ventures, where he invested in and supported high-growth technology companies. Earlier in his career, he spent several years at Uber and Uber Eats, joining as one of the first 100 employees and leading expansion across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Jambu holds a degree in Public Policy and Economics from Vanderbilt University.

David Parry-Jones is a board director and former Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) with more than 30 years of experience scaling technology businesses internationally. Most recently, he served as CRO at DeepL and previously held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, VMware, and Twilio. He has led large teams across diverse markets and cultures, working with both early-stage companies and global enterprises.

As a board member and adviser, he brings a practical perspective on growth, international expansion, and building strong teams that turn strategy into results.

Please join me in welcoming Jambu and David to the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors.

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07 Oct 2026 6:37pm GMT

One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, on how Windows, Edge, Bing, and Copilot are designed to steer people away from the browser they chose.

We published the report, and the researchers published the evidence for anyone to analyze.

Browsers are a powerful tool. So it's no surprise that the history of the web has many examples of powerful platforms trying to deny people browser choice. Now, as AI reshapes our online experiences, the stakes couldn't be higher. Browsers are a key distribution layer for AI tools and services, while still determining many of the privacy and security functionality people rely on every day. Steering people toward one browser can therefore shape which AI services reach users and the protections that come with it.

We also shared the report with Microsoft and talked to them about the issues raised in the report. We knew that an immediate change was unlikely, but we hoped that, when faced with independent evidence of harmful design practices impacting Windows users, they would also want better for people.

Instead, it became clear that Microsoft will respect user choice only when it is forced to. It is important to think about what that means for a company whose operating system runs on more than a billion machines. Microsoft's standard for respecting people's choices is legal compliance. Not what's best for its users. Not its own published principles. Not what's technically feasible. Not even what it already does for users in Europe.

That's the most shocking part. Not that Microsoft engages in such tactics - we've seen that before. It's the fact that a better version of Windows already exists, and it is already available today - but only if you live in the European Economic Area (EEA), where the Digital Markets Act (DMA) forced the issue. If you live in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, or most other locations around the world, your experience and your freedom to choose for yourself are worse.

One hundred days later, here is what people outside of the EEA still get:

• The Windows 10 message "You're almost done setting up your PC" uses tricky wording to pull people off the default they picked.
• Windows Search and Widgets open links in Edge instead of the browser set as default.
• Windows keeps Edge as the default for common browser file types like PDFs and SVG images, even after another browser has been set as default.
  

And people in the EEA also deserve better:

• Edge remains pre-pinned to the taskbar; this seems to directly violate the "principled approach to app pinning and app defaults."
• Copilot, Microsoft's AI tool opens web links in a side-panel instead of the browser people chose, in every region tested, Europe included.
• Windows Backup, the tool Microsoft uses to guide people through the migration to Windows 11, silently tries to set Edge as the default when it restores a PC and fails to properly bring the user's own browser along.

Most of the 2024 patterns are still there. The 2026 patterns are worse. Microsoft is using new surfaces like Copilot and the migration to Windows 11 to further undermine user choice.

Our ask has always been simple: First, give all Windows users the fairer designs that are live in the EEA - regardless of where they are located. Second, stop the remaining harmful design practices that persist in the EEA. That means:

• Stopping the remaining harmful design tactics in the EEA and ship that standard worldwide.
• Honoring people's browser choice everywhere it is currently ignored, including Windows Search, Widgets, Copilot, and Windows Backup restoration.
• Applying Microsoft's own 2023 app pinning principles to Edge itself.

The Mozilla-commissioned report has never been about intent. It's about accountability and Microsoft's responsibility to stop undermining people's choices. The practices we documented need to change. Statements about intent are not a substitute for action.

In the past 100 days, we've stopped waiting for Microsoft to act. Instead, we've stepped up public pressure on the company to respect people's choices.

We are also taking the report's findings to regulators and policymakers. In Europe, the DMA is the only thing that has moved Microsoft. Everywhere else, the lesson is the same: Microsoft ships only when a regulator requires fairer design.

We hope that regulators in the US, the UK, India, and Brazil are paying attention.

Microsoft can do better. It already has, for people in the EEA.

Until it does the same in all jurisdictions, we will keep pointing out the company's choices and the impact they have on hundreds of millions of users who want something different.

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07 Oct 2026 10:00am GMT

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The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org:

• Bug 2075358 - Native Mojo REST endpoints serve anonymous requests when requirelogin is enabled
• Bug 2074690 - BMO REST API cannot set any DATE-type custom field
• Bug 2059957 - Reject Mojolicious-truncated request bodies before native routes dispatch
• Bug 1273193 - Get Comments webservice docs don't mention author
• Bug 2078352 - Selenium test 4_test_votes.t fails with Firefox ESR 153 because go_to_bug doesn't wait for the module expand animation

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06 Oct 2026 9:43pm GMT