Interesting study in the positive benefits of competition, an open business model and continuing innovation. Firefox has Microsoft's anti-competitive monopolistic mentality to thank for its success. Any chance they will share their income with their "share holders"? Question: does open source community oriented "volunteer" code include the concept of community oriented participation in market share /income? re: corollary to first post ... yet they are making revenue from leveraging Google, a private and proprietary technology. great post yet I am not convinced of your point. I think for open source to succeed on its own nobody would have the opportunity to put IP into it. Mozilla lost the Browser Battle in 1998, but it is cool to see how they are learning to win the War. Open Standards has a viral power that we are only beginning to witness. I love the 2.0 version. It has a built in spell checker. oh, i just realised this is the way FF makes money i love FF!! I'm curious, who won the Browser Battle in '98? FF is deffinately my fave, I don't trust IE, and Rogers Yahoo is often too darn slow! I recently found one funny side to the Mozilla FF - Google partnership though; when I downloaded Google's new desktop search tool and toolbar it bogged down my FF browser to a crawl while Yahoo handled it without a hitch! (Weird, seeing that Yahoo's search competes with Google!!) Unfortunate though because I liked the functionality of Google's latest little tool but turned it off after only two days of trial out of sheer impatience. I may research it a bit more and try again otherwise it'll hit the trashbin soon!  WOW, I had no idea  Very very good. I hope this is a shining example for all open source developers and I wish Firefox to be the leading browser (but not the only one, like IE nearly has been!). This is how Clipmarks could work too. No popups, no layers no banners. Just a few more links, which would be adsense links. Or a full text Clipmarks Search engine with Adsense to the right. I would use the sponsored links often. I concur with funana completely. CM should have the search on the Web ability and this would accomplish several things - first provide a convenience for users and let CM benefit financially at the same time. I'm not sure about the ads though (so maybe not 'completely'), because clicking on an ad does take you away from the site, besides screen real estate would be an issue, but adding web search should certainly be doable. ERIC, ERIC, DEREK and ADAM! Are you listening? I'm glad Firefox is doing well. They definitely deserve it. According to the stats on my takeout ordering site - almost 24% of the traffic was from Firefox users! IE still rules at about 72%, but the gap seems to be na... I have managed a german youth page with round about 2 mio. page impressions a month and we had over 60% Firefox users in december. Were these stats taken before the World Cup festivities or after?  Just kidding... no question that Firefox is making some serious inroads everywhere. Hahah. No, after the WC  But as you remind me of this world cup - maaaaan. That was the greatest ever happened to germany and the germans. I'm still so proud of our team, our trainer and the whole vibe we made happen. It was wonderful - an endless open air party with all the fans from foreign countries. 2006 was definetly a good year for us. Europe's browser market is different to the american market I think. For a long time people used to use Netscape and I think people are somehow open for other browsers than IE. AOL is totally unpopular here btw. funana said: oops, forgot the , but I guess you get my point lol, Forgot the [ / quote ] . yeah. 33% in germany and may be because of the very young audience of the page it's that much higher. PS: The site itself looks relatively ugly in IE, maybe another point why they have over 60% FF users. |
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