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Internally, there's no such thing as the browser war. It's just something the media hypes up and something nerds argue about. Google used to contribute to Firef
by ngokevin 14y ago
Internally, there's no such thing as the browser war. It's just something the media hypes up and something nerds argue about. Google used to contribute to Firefox before they went into their caves to give birth to Chrome, and the relationship is still symbiotic. Vendors are happy with the fact that the web is actually progressing now with competition spurring it unlike when Microsoft stopped working on IE in the olden days. Most browsers today are modern and well-kept, even IE10. You'll be fine with whatever modern browser you choose, everyone likes their own little idiosyncrasies found in their browser of choice.
- pjscott 14y agoGoogle still contributes to Firefox, in the form of about $300 million per year.
- jsnell 14y agoThat's not a contribution, it's a business transaction.
- Jyaif 14y agoDoes anyone know how they use their 300 million? They could have a thousand software engineers working on their product, which is probably more than what Google/Apple/MS uses on their respective browsers.
- ngokevin 14y agoAs a non-profit, the large focus would be on growing to further their mission. Of course, they're not simply just going to hire a thousand engineers in a weekend. Recruiting takes a lot of time and manpower. Mozilla is currently around 600 employees and projected to double within the next year. And only a portion of actually work on the Firefox platform, Google and MS throw multitudes more engineers at their browsers.
- zobzu 14y agoThere's also the facilities, advertising, etc. 300mi seems rapidely small at this scale. Firefox for Android did progress enormously as well. I'm not sure all the other decisions were good tho (Firefox OS for example, even thus it makes sense mission-wise, it probably not the best idea for the money)