Nearly a year after Gary Kovacs announced hes stepping down as Mozillas CEO, and the companys board of directors has finally appointed a new leader: former CTO Brendan Eich. Eich has been involved with Firefox from the very beginning, having invented Javascript back in 1995 when he was an early developer for Netscape Navigator. As Mozillas new CEO, Eichs not only responsible for Firefox as a web browser, but also as a mobile operating system.