State of the Mozilla Project
- Successful launch of Firefox and Thunderbird, end of 2004
- Successful launch of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5, end of 2005
- Both Firefox and Thunderbird are now available in over 35 different languages
68 million140 million downloads for Firefox- Participation and interest in the Mozilla project is stronger than ever
Mozilla Foundation and the Project
- Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization created in July 2003
- The mission is to promote choice and innovation on the Net by creating standards-based, open source products and technologies
- Stewards of the Mozilla Project, we provide the infrastructure to manage the project
- Deliver end-user products
- International Affiliates: Europe, Japan, China.
Mozilla by the Numbers
- Employees - 40 at the Foundation;
- Full-time contributors - 120, including engineers from Sun, IBM, Redhat, Novell, Google, others
- Code contributors - 800 in total
- Localizers - products being translated into over 100 languages
- Testers - 10,000 pre-alpha testers file 70 to 100 "bugs" a day, more than 100,000 beta testers
- Advocates - over 100,000 advocates of our products through Spreadfirefox.com project
- Extension Developers - over 900 extensions for Firefox
- Great reliance on each of these "communities" to make the project successful
The Mozilla Recipe
- Open source development model
- Great products that matter
- Web browsers and email clients matter
- Cross platform, multiple language support, extensible, easy to use and migrate to
- Involves many communites including design and marketing
- Products are complete
- Includes cd, guidebook, support documentation, marketing support, and t-shirts
- Relentless focus on the end user
- And lots of luck, right product, right time
Mozilla Firefox web browser
- 140 million downloads in 15 months
- Key Features:
- Streamlined user interface and functions
- Tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking
- Live bookmarks, RSS feeds
- Integrated search
- Auto-update, Standards support, Clear private data... (1.5)
- Web developers are excited
What's new in Firefox 1.5?
- New version of Gecko (1.8)
- Auto-Update System
- Clear Private data
- New preferences panel
- Hundreds of UI refinements
- Includes our first support of SVG and
canvas
Marketshare for a recent Sunday
Source : XitiMonitor.com. Figures from Sunday 20060108.
More than 20 million Firefox 1.5 users (downloads+updates)
Probably around 50 million Firefox users worldwide.
The Road Ahead
- Move the web forward: better web sites and applications based on modern browsers and standards
- Continued innovation with the Mozilla Platform, Firefox and Thunderbird products, and more products
- Focus on global efforts, improving coordination and communication
Firefox roadmap: Firefox 2, codename Bon Echo
- Scheduled for Summer 2006
- feature-complete Beta scheduled for early Q2 2006
- Based on Gecko 1.8, like Firefox 1.5
- UI improvements such as Places.
- Other areas of improvements: Tabbed browsing, Search, Extensions
- See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2/Features
Firefox roadmap: Firefox 3
- May be released on Q1 2007 (all dates are subject to change)
- Based off a new version of Gecko (1.9)
- Will run on top of XULRunner
Participating in the Mozilla Project
- Easy with many ways to participate and with real results
- Marketing community: Spread the word, http://spreadfirefox.com
- Testing community: download builds, provide feedback, and file bugs
- Web development: code to standards, push the limits
- Localization: localize and translate the browser
- Extension development: easy way to start developing
- Application and platform development
- A truly rewarding project