This sounds like corporate speak covering up for a forced resignation. The red herring of the interim CEO doing anything serious on privacy is not real since:
> Chambers says she won’t be seeking a permanent CEO role because she plans to move back to Australia later this year for family reasons.
Here's my optimistic educated guess: The board finally caught on to the fact that Mitchell is an overpaid failed CEO for a "company" (e.g. weird for-profit entity that runs a "non-profit") propped up by its largest competitor to avoid anti-trust accusations. Its only real product has dwindling, barely mattering, marketshare (<5%)^. Chambers, being from the board and not the executive structure, is obviously a caretaker "for cover" while the new CEO search goes on.
> Chambers says she won’t be seeking a permanent CEO role because she plans to move back to Australia later this year for family reasons.
Here's my optimistic educated guess: The board finally caught on to the fact that Mitchell is an overpaid failed CEO for a "company" (e.g. weird for-profit entity that runs a "non-profit") propped up by its largest competitor to avoid anti-trust accusations. Its only real product has dwindling, barely mattering, marketshare (<5%)^. Chambers, being from the board and not the executive structure, is obviously a caretaker "for cover" while the new CEO search goes on.
^If you're curious about an expansion on this, my opinions on it based on their financial statements are in our podcast episode "How Does Mozilla Make Money?" from a year ago: https://pnc.st/s/kopec-explains-software/bdecab32/how-does-m...