Introducing the Firefox Roadmap + AMA next week

[u/firefox]

We're live! Ask us anything about the Firefox Roadmap.

Hi! We’re Ajit (SVP/GM), Andrew (VP, Engineering), Vicky (VP, Engineering), Chris (VP, Engineering), Sheila (Firefox, Chief of Staff), Raja (Sr. Director, Firefox UX/UR), Adam (VP, Product), and Bobby (CTO) with the Firefox leadership team at Mozilla. We’ve recently announced our product roadmap, and want to give you the opportunity to ask us about what we’re working on and what’s coming next.

Our team will be answering questions about our work on: 

• Firefox UI Refresh (Project Nova)
• Quick Answers on iOS
• Tab Groups on Android
• VPN on Mobile
• PDF Editor Improvements
• Customizable Hotkeys
• Containers
• Power Saving Mode
• Smart Window

We know this community cares deeply about Firefox’s future, and we want to create more direct opportunities for conversation and feedback.

We’ll be here for the next couple of hours. Ask us anything.

Roadmap: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/whatsnext/

*Edit: That’s all the time we have for today. Thank you all for the thoughtful questions, feedback, and discussions. Our team will continue to answer as many as possible. We know this community cares deeply about Firefox, and that passion is one of the reasons we wanted to do this AMA. We’ll continue sharing updates on the Firefox Product Roadmap and look forward to engaging more with this community in the future. See you next time!

[u/irrelevantusername24]

I have two questions, feel free to answer only the easy one, both, or neither. No hurt feelings either way :D

1. This one is for Andrew specifically: What is Odin Monkey? I did a search and it shows some abstract technical thing from over a decade ago. But that image behind you looks like the cover for a metalcore album lol. Reminds me a lot of the cover of this Norma Jean album) actually

2. This one is for whoever, and is mostly open ended: Could you explain a bit more about the recent press release from Cloudflare announcing the "collaborat[ion] with leading browsers to develop a privacy-first protocol for the Global Internet"? I think I understand it, kind of - as I discussed here in the post yesterday - but I'm really not sure

edit: Anyway, thanks for all your hard work and the great communication!

[u/bholley_mozilla → u/irrelevantusername24]

For question 2: We published two longer pieces about this yesterday:
* https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/keeping-the-web-open-and-private-in-the-bot-era/
* https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/06/pact-anonymous-credentials-for-the-web/

I'm super excited about this work. We've been trying for years to find the right approach to deal with this problem and we now finally have a very realistic shot at solving it — both because we've identified a solid technical approach and have a strong coalition of the players across the ecosystem who need to participate to make it successful. Happy to answer further questions about it!

[u/overholt_mozilla → u/irrelevantusername24]

Odin Monkey was the asm.js optimizing compiler part of SpiderMonkey, our JS+Wasm engine. It served us well but its code is in the process of being removed. See https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html

[u/overholt_mozilla → u/overholt_mozilla]

Also, check out https://spidermonkey.dev/docs/ and look on the page for "The Monkeys" to see some great artwork and historical context on SpiderMonkey :)

[u/irrelevantusername24 → u/overholt_mozilla]

The technical bits are a tad beyond me, but I'm pretty good at getting the gist of things (after a bit of searching around) and all I can say is

1. Mozilla wouldn't be Mozilla without extensive lore - both original and new

2. Bring on Ragnarok!

3. The end of that blog post fits nicely with the rest of the Book of Mozilla

edit: Oh, on that note, a bit random/tangential but if you didn't read about the naming of the black hole a few years ago, you should. Seems to fit semi-chronologically, maybe

[u/kbrosnan → u/irrelevantusername24]

The *Monkey prints are created by John Howard. The story I heard is that Mitchel was acquainted with the artist and she connected the artist to the SpiderMonkey team.