Mozilla CEO speaks out on future of Firefox

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Dan Warne07 May 2007, 7:37 AM

INTERVIEW |Mozilla's CEO, Mitchell Baker, talks to APC about what's coming in Firefox 3.0, how Firefox now makes $55million a year and how Mozilla plans to take on Flash and Silverlight in web-based graphics and video. Mozilla Japan's cartoon character: Foxkeh pops up to say hello too.


Behind the browser: Mitchell Baker, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, has taken Firefox from nothing to a $US55million per year businessBehind the browser: Mitchell Baker, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, has taken Firefox from nothing to a $US55million per year business

According to Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker, Firefox is just at the beginning of its life cycle. In this one-on-one interview with APCMag.com, she talks about where Firefox came from and where it’s going.

The interview's over 8,000 words long, so we've broken it up into sections to make it easier to navigate.

 

UPDATE: Mozilla Europe has posted a French translation.

Addendum:

As you'll see from the comments below, opinion seems to be split between people who find the sectionalisation useful and those who'd rather just have it all in one article. So here's the all-in-one-page version if you prefer it.


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I R TehLazy:

Giev audio plox ?

Seriously come on, I want to hear it all but im sure as hell not reading a dozen pages.

damn.

no really, i love clicking 12 times for 1 story. fools.

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Anony-mouse:

Mate, it's your loss then. This is a GREAT read. But I suppose if it was one l-o-n-g article you'd be whining about having to scroll down the page.

29 February 2008, 8:41 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

raindog:

Just imagine it's a TV remote, younger members have no problems clicking the channel change on those 12 times a minute.

Seriously if you cannot hold concentration for 12 brief pages, you are in the wrong place and you'd be best served by typing "simpsons" into the Google task-bar above.

29 February 2008, 8:41 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Simon Hürlimann:

It's no fun to read 12 pages for just 8000 words.
Thx for the story anyway

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Dan:

Sooks...

Users click all day to follow links across the breadth of the net to get the 'full story'.

I cannot believe you have even made an issue out of it!

Stop wasting space!

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

talk2sk:

If you were using firefox then you would just open them all up in tabs with a CTRL+Click and then read them at leisure.. as if you were turning pages on a book [you can do that can't you ?]

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Print Design Advertising:

Hey - some of us do not have time to sit at our desk's reading articles. If I find something interesting, I either copy and paste the text to a .txt file and print from there. Either that, I just print the HTML page. Once done, I take and read on the train. Having to do this 12 x times is not fun and TBH, 99% of the time, I choose not to read / print the article.

Boo to 12 different links!

29 February 2008, 8:41 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

raindog:

Yeah lets waste god knows how much fossil fuel printing something so you can be comfortable on a train and can then trash those 12 pages. If you dont have the work time to read the article then read it at home, simple really even an advertising type could catch on when they took the time out to think about it.


29 February 2008, 8:41 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

developerx:

Great article, and worth all the clicking ;)
An audio version would have been great and appreciated as well.
It is not about "Clicking is cumbersome, so have an audio version", but rather having audio versions would be a great way of offering your article guys. I think many would welcome the idea of having audio version of article.

your friendly reader/listener :)

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Anonymous Cow:

"To make it easier to navigate" yeah right! You just want more ad imprints.

I refuse to read your damned article.

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

raindog:

Just do it quietly !

29 February 2008, 8:42 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Anonymouse:

Looks like they have the one pager view, else Id' be in the same boat.

29 February 2008, 8:42 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Ric:

I have limited bandwidth, a link to load the entire interview should have been included. Even without my bandwidth problem I almost never click on multi-link pages - There should always be an option for all the info on one page.

29 February 2008, 8:30 PM (10 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

APC administrator:

it is now -- see above under "addendum".

29 February 2008, 8:42 PM (10 months ago)report abuse