Mozilla CEO speaks out on future of Firefox

I R TehLazy:

Giev audio plox ?

Seriously come on, I want to hear it all but im sure as hell not reading a dozen pages.

damn.

no really, i love clicking 12 times for 1 story. fools.

Anony-mouse:

Mate, it's your loss then. This is a GREAT read. But I suppose if it was one l-o-n-g article you'd be whining about having to scroll down the page.

raindog:

Just imagine it's a TV remote, younger members have no problems clicking the channel change on those 12 times a minute.

Seriously if you cannot hold concentration for 12 brief pages, you are in the wrong place and you'd be best served by typing "simpsons" into the Google task-bar above.

Simon Hürlimann:

It's no fun to read 12 pages for just 8000 words.
Thx for the story anyway

Dan:

Sooks...

Users click all day to follow links across the breadth of the net to get the 'full story'.

I cannot believe you have even made an issue out of it!

Stop wasting space!

talk2sk:

If you were using firefox then you would just open them all up in tabs with a CTRL+Click and then read them at leisure.. as if you were turning pages on a book [you can do that can't you ?]

Print Design Advertising:

Hey - some of us do not have time to sit at our desk's reading articles. If I find something interesting, I either copy and paste the text to a .txt file and print from there. Either that, I just print the HTML page. Once done, I take and read on the train. Having to do this 12 x times is not fun and TBH, 99% of the time, I choose not to read / print the article.

Boo to 12 different links!

raindog:

Yeah lets waste god knows how much fossil fuel printing something so you can be comfortable on a train and can then trash those 12 pages. If you dont have the work time to read the article then read it at home, simple really even an advertising type could catch on when they took the time out to think about it.

developerx:

Great article, and worth all the clicking ;)
An audio version would have been great and appreciated as well.
It is not about "Clicking is cumbersome, so have an audio version", but rather having audio versions would be a great way of offering your article guys. I think many would welcome the idea of having audio version of article.

your friendly reader/listener :)

Anonymous Cow:

"To make it easier to navigate" yeah right! You just want more ad imprints.

I refuse to read your damned article.

raindog:

Just do it quietly !

Anonymouse:

Looks like they have the one pager view, else Id' be in the same boat.

Ric:

I have limited bandwidth, a link to load the entire interview should have been included. Even without my bandwidth problem I almost never click on multi-link pages - There should always be an option for all the info on one page.

APC administrator:

it is now -- see above under "addendum".

FF_User:

Great read. Especially the parts about Microsoft and Linux running like XP. I wonder what the figures would look like on Thunderbird, because it is easy to see how a web browser makes is revenue (through search engines), but how does Thunderbird make money, or is it even aimed at making money?

It was pretty clear she was very defensive over Firefox and opensource, when she didn't say much about the Linux/XP shamble, and "laughing" at the bloke who didn't have Firefox on his laptop.

Great stuff, APC. Thanks alot.

bob h:

This CEO is bragging about how she built a business out
of a product that is free. Customers choose to pay or not.

When i read about an executive bragging about her
revenue growth on a product that i can choose to
donate to or not, it makes me swear to never pay
them any money, cuz i know she's just getting rich off it.
Doesn't she realize she is sending a message to
her 'customers' when she talks like this?

Dan Warne:

But you don't pay to use Firefox -- what Baker was saying was that she's found a way of funding the very large effort that goes into the quality assurance side of Firefox etc, using a completely non-intrusive way of earning money. Plus, I asked her the question... it's not like she just started bragging about it. 

Basdger Linux:

Unfortunately in life most people are self motivated and not altruisitic.
It all comes down to what the average person or the community gets out of the process. Is there a benefit somewhere down the line.
Firefox is both used as a product and forced the market leader, Microsoft, to introduce features into its product that it had no intention of doing.
As a result the average computer user and the community is better off.
If Michelle Baker can make some income in the process good for her. It is not Worldcomm where a bunch of people lived high on the hog on the backs of others leaving a wasteland in the process ( and no guilt on their part for all the lives they ruined and damage they did to others
whether they be employees or shareholders)
Everyone in Russia had a job - but no one could eat.

Dan Warne:

Yep - and don't forget, Mitchell Baker doesn't get this money, it goes to the Mozilla Foundation, which is a not-for-profit organisation that puts the money back into projects that develop Firefox further...

Doc:

Ubuntu Linux sed:
"Unfortunately in life most people are self motivated and not altruisitic [sec]"

Why do you think that is 'unfortunate?'
It is natural and normal, and because I work toward my best interests, I do my best to please you so that you will do business with me. This profits you.

Cubert:

I want to know when Mozilla will make Firefox 2 work well with Mac OS X like 1.5 did!

Diego:

make it less resource hog and optimize the thing on non windows systems (Linux, Mac, etc)

Optimus Prime:

Power to Firefox!! Long live Firefox and down with IE!!!