Mozilla Is Too Big To Fail
Larry Dignan at ZDNetmakes an important point about the financial future of Mozilla Foundation. In his post, he points to Mozilla’s over reliance on Google and wonders if it is good for its future. The financial for 2008 didn’t show any downward trend. Rather, they showed a consolidated revenue of $78.6 million, up 5 percent [...]
Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0′s Guiness Record. Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the “new and [...]
Opera Unite: Do You Really Want to Run a Web Server on your Computer?
The little browser that could … was how the Opera browser was often referred to around 1996-98. The best browser packed with innovative features that Internet Explorer and Firefox were forced to copy: tabbed browsing, popup-blockers, saved sessions, zooming, mouse gestures to name a few. The fastest browser that did everything out-of-the box that Firefox [...]
Market Share vs. Popularity
Who am I to question the great Walt Mossberg? But when he says Internet Explorer is the World’s most popular browser I have to wonder… Here’s a definition of popularity from Wikipedia: Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common. Looks like Mossberg is right if we focus on common. Internet Explorer is no [...]
