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Moving Forward with Firefox

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Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by gcb0 »

walterbell wrote: post #8

> today we combined our group focused on cloud services with the group focused on our Firefox desktop What are some examples of Mozilla products created by the "cloud services" group that will now be taking ownership of the browser? E.g. Persona, Sync, ..? Is the cloud services team separated from the advertising (tiles) team?

it is all the annoying services. Like sync.

and you can bet anyone coming from one group will, even without noticing, push that group forward in his decisions.

So expect some Gplus like moves from firefox in the near future.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by ironsides »

scrollaway wrote: post #17
userbinator wrote: post #13

"Moving Forward" "achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy" Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

Thanks for acting as a translator.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by logn »

scrollaway wrote: post #17
userbinator wrote: post #13

"Moving Forward" "achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy" Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

One of them should change their name then. It's confusing and starts to feel like a good cop, bad cop routine.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by esfandia »

Thiz wrote: post #10
state wrote: post #2

I wish there was a page on mozilla.org with the title, 'This is how Mozilla makes money'.

I believe Mozilla should start an advertising network and offer cloud services like webmail, docs, blogs, photos, etc so people create an everlasting bond with their properties while maintaining the open web motto they are already known and praised for. An extra couple billion dollars a year wouldn't hurt either.

Just a nice customizable home page would be great, something like My Yahoo or the defunct iGoogle but better. Provide nice calendar and weather widgets and a good API to develop more and you're good to go. Insert ads in the widgets at will. There's not much in the way of competition either.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by jd3 »

scrollaway wrote: post #20
ironsides wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Longtime user -- I was on the Netscape 4.3, then 7.1, Kmeleon project, then Phoenix, then Firdbird, then Firefox? I cant keep up. With that being said, Mozilla has been (in my mind) the pro consumer, pro internet org to challenge the establishment. So far, its worked wonders -- we have a diverse ecosystem, new burning edge interfaces and plugin market places to boot. The partnership with the Tor project gave…

> Longtime user -- I was on the Netscape 4.3, then 7.1, Kmeleon project, then Phoenix, then Firdbird, then Firefox? I cant keep up. You named 5 things that happened in the span of 3 years over 12 years ago, and one that has been around for a decade. I'm pretty sure you can in fact keep up. > Where is the heart? The direction? The challenge? Please.

Exactly. Sounds like someone sorely needs to migrate to Mozilla Sui- cough seamonkey.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by acomjean »

ironsides wrote: post #14
userbinator wrote: post #13

"Moving Forward" "achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy" Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?

Agreed. Longtime user -- I was on the Netscape 4.3, then 7.1, Kmeleon project, then Phoenix, then Firdbird, then Firefox? I cant keep up. With that being said, Mozilla has been (in my mind) the pro consumer, pro internet org to challenge the establishment. So far, its worked wonders -- we have a diverse ecosystem, new burning edge interfaces and plugin market places to boot. The partnership with the Tor project gave…

to find the spark, type about:mozilla in the address bar. Works best in firefox.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by walterbell »

scrollaway wrote: post #17
userbinator wrote: post #13

"Moving Forward" "achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy" Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

Which one employs the people who ship the browser?

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by zobzu »

scrollaway wrote: post #17
userbinator wrote: post #13

"Moving Forward" "achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy" Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

That's posted on mozilla.org, not mozilla.com tho. There's a fine balance between the two.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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Post by azakai »

walterbell wrote: post #27
scrollaway wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

Which one employs the people who ship the browser?

Mozilla is a nonprofit organization. Governance comes from there.

The Mozilla Corporation employs most people working on Firefox, and is controlled by the nonprofit. It pays taxes and salaries and so forth, but all of its goals are driven by the nonprofit.

It's similar to nonprofit hospitals and similar things, again where there is a nonprofit that controls a for-profit entity (as hospitals need to employ people, pay taxes, etc., like a normal business).

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