Mozilla Mulls Desktop Search Features for Firefox Browser

KingFishKingFish
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
Having launched the much-awaited version 1.0 of the Firefox browser on Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation is busy planning future enhancements to the open-source product, including the possibility of integrating it with a variety of desktop search tools.
The foundation also wants to place Firefox in PCs through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) deals with PC hardware vendors and to continue to sharpen the product's pop-up ad-blocking technology. These and other enhancements, such as graphics display improvements, will help Firefox to continue building the already considerable momentum it has generated so it can capture between 10 and 12 percent of the Web browser market by some point next year, said Chris Hofmann, the Mozilla Foundation's engineering director. "We believe there's room for a lot of growth for Firefox's market share and there's a number of things we need to do to continue on this growth curve," Hofmann said.
Source: PC World

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    How does mozilla make money?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Here's how:
    http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Also by selling:

    Firefox CDs and CDs plus Guidebooks (one each per set unit), Firefox Caps, FireFox mugs, Firefox T-shirts, and possibly even sweatshirts. Most of its real income does come from donations, and some sponsorship influxes of funds and facilities.

    They also do the same thing for Mozilla, and have a bit of thunderbird stuff coming out. You can find the store from the nav menu at http://www.mozilla.org/ if you want to check out the stuff to show off what browser you use, or if you want a printed firefox guidebook and CD set, that might be another thing to look for at the MozSource store.

    Yeah, Mozilla seemed a bit limiting, now that they have 2 browsers, Thunderbird, bug tracking software, and a Mac browser also, so they are starting to call themselves MozSource meaning "Source of Mozzie-like stuff" as near as I can figure out.

    They actually are a foundation, the idea is NOT to make an overall net profit REGULARLY -- rather to offset COSTS as best as they can and work toward an overall breakeven operation.
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