Mozilla CEO: Relationship with Google is complicated

Posted on Friday, December 26 2008 @ 4:20 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Mozilla CEO John Lilly said in an interview that while his firm has a fine and reasonable relationship with Google, the launch of the search giant's Chrome browser definitely complicated things:
"We have a fine and reasonable relationship," John Lilly, Mozilla's CEO, said in an interview last week. "But I'd be lying if I said that things weren't more complicated than they used to be."

Responding to questions about Mozilla's take on the upswing in browser competition, Lilly also knocked another rival, Microsoft Corp., for dismissing attempts to boost browser performance as merely a "drag race."

"It's a pretty good time to be a browser user," said Lilly. "There are more smart people hacking on browsers than in a long time. But when I hear Dean [Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer] say JavaScript performance is for crazy guys to worry about, then that worries me."


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