Good Read: Mozilla CEO Shares future of Firefox

Web-surfers have adopted Firefox rapidly, despite Internet Explorer coming pre-installed with every copy of the Windows OS. Internet Explorer has seen a steady decline of its usage share since Firefox’s release.

Downloads have continued at an increasing rate since Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, and as of February 12, 2007 Firefox has been downloaded over 300 million times. 

According to Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker, Firefox is just at the beginning of its life cycle. In this one-on-one interview with APCMag.com, she talks about where Firefox came from and where it’s going.

The interview’s over 8,000 words long, so we’ve broken it up into sections to make it easier to navigate.

• Part 1: How 12 people made Firefox 1.0
• Part 2: Where Firefox’s $US55million a year comes from
• Part 3: Putting Firefox on mobile phones
• Part 4: business cool on IE7, recontemplating Firefox?
• Part 5: Why no built-in ad-blocker in Firefox yet?
• Part 6: Firefox 3.0 “lock-in branding” — what gives!
• Part 7: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight
• Part 8: The touchy relationship between Microsoft and Mozilla
• Part 9: Getting Firefox onto more desktops
• Part 10: Mozilla Japan’s cute Firefox cartoon character
• Part 11: The stoush over Linux distros and the Firefox trademark
• Part 12: Mozilla working on “Web 3.0″ — web apps that will run in your browser without an internet connection

[Source: APC Magazine]

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