Former Mozilla CEO would've transformed Firefox into a pro-privacy anti-Chrome

July 08, 2014

Brendan Eich's reign as Mozilla's CEO may have only lasted less than two short weeks, but he already had long-term plans about how to help Firefox regain some of its lost glory—plans that meant competing against Mozilla's biggest benefactor, as Eich revealed in a series of tweets on Sunday.Mozilla and Firefox are in a sticky spot. More than 90 percent of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google, in exchange for prominent placement in the browser. But Firefox's share of the browser market has been tumbling in recent months, from 18.02 percent in January to 15.5 percent in June, according to NetMarketShare—and in the same time frame, both Internet Explorer and Google's own Chrome browser saw an increase in users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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