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Mozilla is in the middle of a difficult phase. Chrome is said to have overtaken Mozilla Firefox in terms of market share and there is ongoing suspense over the open-source outfit’s lucrative search referral deal with Google. The latter in particular is being seen as a major concern, with almost 80 percent of Mozilla’s annual revenue at stake. All said, It’s just about the best time for a non-profit to remind everyone about its selfless goals and make a pitch for donations.
Mozilla on Sunday posted a new video titled “The Mozilla Story.” The video tells the story of how this non-profit founded by “coders, designers and idealists” has helped shape the web as we know it today. Now, Mozilla wants you to donate generously so it can continue on that path.
“Watch the video and learn how a small group of people dedicated to making the Web a safe, open and accessible tool for communication, collaboration and community came together to create Mozilla – and how that work continues today,” reads Mozilla’s pitch for donations.
“And please help us continue to build a Web that is open, accessible, safe and – most of all – a force for good in the world by making a donation today.”
However, no amount of public generosity can match the proceeds from Mozilla’s search referral deal with Google. That deal expired in November, prompting many to cast doubts on Firefox’s future.
Mozilla though has expressed confidence in its longstanding relationship with Google: "Our search relationship with Google remains positive for both of us. We have every confidence that search partnerships will continue to be a strong and growing generator of revenue for the foreseeable future."
It will be interesting to see whether or not Google, which is now a direct rival of Mozilla’s in the browser market, will renew this deal.
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paschal
December 06, 2011 at 9:53pm
I like Firefox, but I hate seeing that memory screen pop-up at least once a day. Sure, I keep a lot of tabs open, but I have 8 gigs of memory on 7X64. That should be enough. Chrome I hate for the drive-by install prompts on some good utilities suggested by max PC and other safe sites, although the frequency can't touch the shove down your throat drive-by of garbage Ask.com. IE, bulk of the market, a natural target, but have to use it on some few selected sights to buy stuff, or drill down. I'll skip why, many of you already know. Although on a Firefox engine, Sea Monkey gives me very few problems, does not bitch about memory, and has a decent mail client. A bit old fashioned looking, but is updated somewhat frequent. At least for now, if I have to loosen cookies etc for a site, very simple and stupid to adjust, no menu drill down, straight off the menu bar. Another reason I have for not wanting Google and Chrome together is the increased target for government intrusion that would be seen as a twofer invasion. Nah, they would not go there, or would they?
glamdring
December 06, 2011 at 11:12pm
The memory problem is oddly unique to Windows and even worse on Win7. Firefox runs blazing fast on Linux and from those I know say it runs good on OSX too. On winXP it seems to run decent too, but still has some problems.
zefrem7
December 06, 2011 at 6:09pm
They should make a deal with Microsoft to replace Internet Explorer with Firefox on all new Windows installs.
I Jedi
December 06, 2011 at 9:16am
I truly hope Google does the right thing, even if Mozilla has become a competitor against them.
