Mozilla: Past, Present & FutureSeth Bindernagel & Chris Hofmann

Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla is...•a global effort to promote choice &

innovation on the Internet

•one of the foremost advocates for users on the Web

•an open source project with thousands of contributors

•the maker of the Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird email client

Mozilla Suite

FirefoxApril 1998

mozilla.org founded

June 2002mozilla suite 1.0

November 9, 2004Firefox

1.010,000,000 downloads in 30 days

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100+ million Active UsersJune 2007

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Mozilla Milestones & User Growth

Firefox in 40+ Languages•Afrikaans

•Arabic•Basque•Belorussian•Bulgarian•Catalan•Chinese (S)•Chinese (T)•Czech•Danish•Dutch•English•English (gb)•Finnish•French•Frisian•Georgian•German•Greek•Gujarati•Hebrew•Hungarian•Irish•Italian•Japanese•Korean•Kurdish•Lithuanian•Norwegian (nb)•Norwegian (no)•Polish•Portuguese (br)•Portuguese (pt)•Punjabi•Romanian•Russian•Slovak•Slovenian•Spanish (ar)•Spanish (es)•Swedish•Turkish

Firefox Adoption...source: xitimonitor.com, as of March

2007

Firefox•Award-winning Web Browser

•Features

• Integrated search• Popup blocking• Tabbed browsing• Auto-updating

• Secure

• Improvements to Tabbed Browsing

•Undo Close Tab

•Session Restore

•Search Suggestions

User Experience

Personalize your browser•Discover and add your favorite

search engines, feed readers, themes, and more.

•2,500+ Firefox add-ons such as:

Shopping Tools

Blog Integration

Bookmarks Extras

Content Discovery

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~40% of the code contributedto Firefox since November ’06has come from the community

Ways to Get Involved

•Spread the word!spreadfirefox.com

•Give us feedback

•Write an Add-ondeveloper.mozilla.org

•Become a contributor

How does this work?

ChaosChaosChaosChaosAnyone can propose a change

Anyone can comment on a proposal for a change

ChaosChaosChaosChaos

Anyone can submit a change to the code

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OrderOrderOrderOrderNot everyone can approve a change

OrderOrderOrderOrderStrong leadership structure

Module Module Owner Code Owner Code

ReviewReview

SubmitSubmitPatchPatch

(anyone)(anyone)

SuperSuperReviewReview

Release Release BranchBranch

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Release Release TeamTeam

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Security •Fastest response time of any vendor

•Phishing Protection

Fewer Days at Risk•In 2006, Firefox

users were at risk for 9 days

•MSIE & MSIE-based browser users at risk for 284 days

• “at risk” defined as exploits disclosed but unpatched

Firefox for Web Devs

•Variety of developer tools

•Consistent deployment across platforms.

•Build web apps using web standards

•Many common JS libraries are now part of the Firefox test suite

DOM Inspector Aptana

FirebugWeb Developer

Toolbar

What’s Next•JS2 - http://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/xtech2006/javascript/

•Offline - http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2007/02/offline_web_app.html

•uFormats - http://labs.mozilla.com/2006/12/introducing-operator

•Graphics - Cairo - http://wiki.mozilla.org/Cairo

•FUEL - (Firefox User Extension Library) http://wiki.mozilla.org/FUEL

•Malware protection

•Places

What does all of this mean

•Programming in the large

•Making it fun

•Web will be indistinguishable from the desktop

•Much of it is here now - rest coming soon

Ways to Get Involved

•Spread the word!spreadfirefox.com

•Give us feedback

•Write an Add-ondeveloper.mozilla.org

•Become a contributor

Even Aliens Prefer Firefox...

sethb @mozilla.comhttp://blog.mozilla.com/seth

chofmann@mozilla.org

Thank you very much!

Ideas were also contributedfrom the following people:

The Firefox CommunityChris Beard

Mike BeltznerDave CampPaul Colton

Mike ConnorAsa Dotzler

David EavesBrendan EichAlex FaaborgJay GoldmanBen Goodger

John LillyLarry Lessig

Deb RichardsonMike Shaver

Mike SchroepferMartin Weinbergerimages courtesy of

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