The Future of FireFox and Mozilla

[gfxguru]

Firefox need to focus seriously on start-up speed. have to make it lite. it gets too heavy when their is a lot of bookmark saved.

[Mr Happy]

probably will sign up with Motorola or SonyEricson some mobile brands which are internationally reputated and start dealing with em to have their app store powered by Mozilla

Motorola are owned by Google though (awaiting approval due soon) so a partnership is highly unlikely. As for Sony Ericsson that deal ended and Sony bought out the shareholding of Ericsson recently and if anything they will try and use their Vita OS that's on their PlayStation and PSP instead and link their products to creating their own ecosystem instead. That's of course if they decide to get rid of Android which is currently very successful for them.

[immu]

then no other choice left for them
they need to get an FFStore get apps like Chrome Browser have or Deal with FB & Twitter to add few lines like "works best with FireFox" and hyperlink em. Not sure that gona happen tough
Tough times for em only Innovative step shall save em

[SJshah]

In response to the original post, I think theyre too late. Creating an OS with apps/extentions now will be a hard strategy to make work. Google, Apple and Microsoft own that market.

They should focus on making firefox faster and more stable on both desktops, netbooks, mobiles, tablets. If they can make firefox faster and more reliable than Safari, IE and Chrome people will use it as an alternative - just like we once did before the days of Chrome.

They should also look into growing in apps and extentions, maybe offer something back to developers.

[immu]

developers well, that gona not work coz, at the end of the day its used by noobs (80% around the world)
so they need to provide something back to users and developers too
like if an extention is installed 1k times developers should be rewarded and users who set FF as their homepage shall get an elite FF user rank something like that

[r00ts]

What? Firefox FTW! All good addons is pon it!

[DJboutit]

They need to get rid of the Plugin-container.exe this is what is killing Firefox

[Mr Happy]

In response to the original post, I think theyre too late. Creating an OS with apps/extentions now will be a hard strategy to make work. Google, Apple and Microsoft own that market.

They should focus on making firefox faster and more stable on both desktops, netbooks, mobiles, tablets. If they can make firefox faster and more reliable than Safari, IE and Chrome people will use it as an alternative - just like we once did before the days of Chrome.

They should also look into growing in apps and extentions, maybe offer something back to developers.

I do think this is their only true option also but if you think they used to just develop a browser for a desktop and now they also need a browser for iOS, Android and Windows Phone and remember they have tablets as well so that's an extra browser if iOS Tablets, Android Tablets, and Window Tablets and that's before you even consider RIM and Blackberry. It's way more work maintaining all those browsers on different platforms and isn't really possible.

[jSx@ECD]

Not surprised to be honest.. Saw this coming. It's to late to get involved in the iOS niche since it's dominated by the 3 main companies. In my opinion they should just fight for what they already have. If they further develop FireFox to compete with Chrome and other browsers. They just need to find something unique, something that will let you customize your browser how you want by changing colors, re-arranging buttons, etc. Let the creativity flow.

[imagepad]

I stopped using firefox because of the plugin-container bug that's yet to be fixed.