Google and Mozilla’s partnership contract was coming close to an end, November 2008 (two months away).
But, at the Firefox Plus Summit, the contract has been renewed for another three years.
This image below sums up pretty well what is happening right now.
Here’s a quote from the post, “…the introduction of the browser concept series, developer releases for Thunderbird, and video moving into the browser via Firefox 3.1.”
Video moving into the browser via Firefox 3.1? Hmmm sounds like another way to drive more views to YouTube through the ever-so-popular browser.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Better video integration is coming to a browser near you, soon!
So stay tuned for future updates of Firefox and how Google can become even more integrated into the browser.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
huh. Wonder what Mozilla would have done if they knew Google Chrome was coming out only a few days later?
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Probably nothing differently.
Google has been working very closely with the Mozilla team in Mountain View — the two offices, Mozilla’s and Google’s, are very close to each other.
Mozilla knew the whole time that Google was going to be releasing their own browser, it wasn’t a surprise at all.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Good point, it just seems to me that Mozilla would be pissed that Google would be making their own competing browser which will no doubt lessen the amount of people who download Firefox later in the future once Chrome becomes a giant and well-known.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
As one of the Google employees put it so well, “we welcome competition” and so should any great company.
Competition is best because the consumer will always win. Companies need to be more innovative, more creative, and do things more efficiently to keep the user retained.
Competition is what drives the world of business (and life), so if I were Mozilla, I would welcome competition; Google does.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Good point, I forgot for a second that Mozilla is one of those companies that actually look out for the consumer instead of just trying to squeeze every last penny out of them *cough*Comcast*cough*.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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