IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser
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IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser
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#2Does anyone know if IBM contributes code to either Firefox/Gecko or Webkit?
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#3I was an employee of IBM up until about 6 months ago, where upon I switched to a start up. But that is not what this is about.
Hopefully, things at IBM have changed internally because a vast majority of their internal applications require Internet Explorer to function at all. Pretty much everyone I knew used Firefox, but groaned loudly when they had to open IE6 to use some of their internal tools on W3.
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#4Does anyone know if IBM contributes code to either Firefox/Gecko or Webkit?
The IBM/Firefox tie-up started a long time ago with them contributing some accessibility features. http://www-03.ibm.com/able/resources/firefox.html
Glad they made it official, though, but Firefox had been an IBMer favorite for a while: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/4902.ars
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#5This is a good strategic move against Microsoft. If IBM lends its credibility to the Firefox cause, other companies will be more willing to get rid of IE, especially IE6.
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#6How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome?
Edit: Mozilla Corp. is a commercial entity, just like Google and Apple are. Gecko and WebKit are both open source, and Chromium builds show just how easy it would be to build an IBM-branded Chrome, if you will. I don’t see IP as a serious factor here.
Re: IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser
#7How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome? Edit: Mozilla Corp. is a commercial entity, just like Google and Apple are. Gecko and WebKit are both open source, and Chromium builds show just how easy it would be to build an IBM-branded Chrome, if you will. I don’t see IP as a serious facto…
Chrome probably didn't even exist yet when IBM started migrating to Firefox.
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#8How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome? Edit: Mozilla Corp. is a commercial entity, just like Google and Apple are. Gecko and WebKit are both open source, and Chromium builds show just how easy it would be to build an IBM-branded Chrome, if you will. I don’t see IP as a serious facto…
Chrome probably didn't even exist yet when IBM started migrating to Firefox.
Can anyone enlighten me as to what sort of browser-specific investments have been made? Isn’t the idea of a standards-based web that it hardly matters which browser is chosen, as long as it supports the standards in question?
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#9This is excellent. If Google decides to stop sponsoring Mozilla, IBM now has an incentive to do so in their place.
Re: IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser
#10How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome? Edit: Mozilla Corp. is a commercial entity, just like Google and Apple are. Gecko and WebKit are both open source, and Chromium builds show just how easy it would be to build an IBM-branded Chrome, if you will. I don’t see IP as a serious facto…
I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome?
One of their requirements was that the browser not be "beholden to one commercial entity".