Mozilla hiring mobile designers, developers
20.05.12
"My thoughts started to take twists and turns," he says. "We cannot have one commercially minded organization shape our lives." The Mozilla project was born in 1998 with the mission to provide an open, customizable counterweight to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which accounted for more than 90% of the browser market at the time.
Today, Firefox, an open-source project led by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation in Mountain View, California , with millions of contributors around the world, has nearly a quarter of the market. Many of the features it pioneered-such as pop-up blocking and virus protection-are commonplace. Mozilla's original goal of spurring competition and innovation seems to have been met.
Yet for all its success in the desktop browser market, Mozilla is nearly absent from today's biggest growth opportunity: mobile. It has yet to develop an app for the iPhone. Its free Firefox browser for Android smartphones has been downloaded 5.4 million times, a modest number compared with the roughly 200 million Android devices now in use.
Source: Times of India