Is Firefox Doomed?

Re:Is Firefox Doomed? by kijin on Saturday December 03, 2011 @05:02PM (#3309012)

Becoming the #3 browser doesn't make Firefox anywhere near "doomed". It's just back where it was a few years ago, as far as market share is concerned. The desktop and laptop userbase isn't going to disappear anytime soon, either.

I don't know much about the search engine partnership issue, but it seems that the author suggested his answer to that. No search service can afford to ignore a browser with over 20% market share.

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Re:Is Firefox Doomed? by jyrkesh on Saturday December 03, 2011 @05:04PM (#3309020)

I think the issue here is that Mozilla can't afford to still exist without that 100 million from Google a year. But yeah, I don't see why someone else wouldn't come in and swoop on that.

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Re:Is Firefox Doomed? by marshray on Sunday December 04, 2011 @12:20AM (#3309940)

Last I checked, the statement I read looked like Mozilla had a pile of cash in the bank. Enough to go on for many years if they're not dumb with it.

Would be interesting to see if they've put out an updated statement since then.

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Re:Is Firefox Doomed? by jyrkesh on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @03:33AM (#3318544)

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, right? So they should have public documents out there somewhere, right?

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Re:Is Firefox Doomed? by ehthere on Saturday December 03, 2011 @07:22PM (#3309383)

Bing?

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Re:Is Firefox Doomed? by megablast on Saturday December 03, 2011 @10:01PM (#3309708)

Bing had already said they would pay for firefox, just as they would for Apple. It is disappointing to see all the doomsayers here, you would have thought this was an obvious point.

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