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IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser

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Re: IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser

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Post by wmf »

alanh wrote: post #8
wmf wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Probably testing.

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

w1ntermute wrote: post #9

This is excellent. If Google decides to stop sponsoring Mozilla, IBM now has an incentive to do so in their place.

Google pays for search placement, as do at least a couple of other search providers I believe. They used to pay people one dollar for getting Firefox plus Google Search installed on a machine so they clearly view it as a money maker rather than a charity.

Re: IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser

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alanh wrote: post #6

How 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…

Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation (whose stated mission is to work towards an open web) and was mainly set for tax reasons. This makes it very unlike Google or Apple.
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