Firefox Premium Coming This Fall

The first inkling that Mozilla was considering adding paid for services to its browser came in October 2018 when it ran a limited experiment in which it offered a VPN (virtual private network) service to a small group of Firefox users in partnership with ProtonVPN. Although the blog post announcing it had the headline Testing new ways to keep you safe online, which suggested it had the interests of users in mind, the content made explicit that Mozilla was looking for a way to monetize Firefox:

This experiment is also important to Mozilla’s future. Now in an interview by Jan Vollmer for the German online magazine site t3n, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has confirmed plans to launch Firefox Premium later this year.

Source: www.i-programmer.info