Posted on Wednesday, September 03 2008 @ 14:09 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Mozilla CEO John Lilly talks about the launch of
Google's Chrome browser on his blog. He says the launch of Chrome doesn't really come as a surprise as Google's business is the web, and Chrome is optimized for the things that they see as important.
2. What does this mean for Mozilla’s relationship with Google? Mozilla and Google have always been different organizations, with different missions, reasons for existing, and ways of doing things. I think both organizations have done much over the last few years to improve and open the Web, and we’ve had very good collaborations that include the technical, product, and financial. On the technical side of things, we’ve collaborated most recently on Breakpad, the system we use for crash reports — stuff like that will continue. On the product front, we’ve worked with them to implement best-in-class anti-phishing and anti-malware that we’ve built into Firefox, and looks like they’re building into Chrome. On the financial front, as has been reported lately, we’ve just renewed our economic arrangement with them through November 2011, which means a lot for our ability to continue to invest in Firefox and in new things like mobile and services.
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