Firefox's dev team: Canada's best-kept IT secret
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| The statistics on Firefox 2, Nightingale said, show that almost half of the
| browser's code comes from people outside of the community. Because of this,
| Nightingale praised Humphrey's for his efforts in getting students involved
| in the project and expressed encouragement for more closely linked
| partnerships with schools across Canada.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2282340&rid=-50
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Ross: Firefox Goes Where Few Browsers Have Gone Before
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| Blake Ross continues to work on the Firefox browser and on the upcoming
| 3.0 version of the browser. But Ross is also involved in a new
| company called Parakey, which he has said is working on
| building essentially a Web-based operating system.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2104133,00.asp
Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox
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| Its products are free. Its work force is largely volunteer. Its meetings
| are open to anyone. It's a nonprofit. It may be the hottest tech company in
| America.
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| [...]
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| Open-source software organizations such as those that developed the
| Linux PC operating system and the Apache Web server program have
| long wrestled with ways to keep lines of communication open and
| to distribute decision making among vast communities of mostly
| software-developer volunteers. But Mozilla can't fall back on
| these precedents, either. Unlike other open-source ventures,
| which tend to be niche products embraced by techies who become
| fiercely loyal to and dependent on the software, Firefox is a
| mass-market, consumer-oriented product that can easily be
| replaced should it fail to offer distinct advantages over
| the competition. That means Mozilla has to move faster and be
| more innovative and marketing-oriented than its open-source
| cousins.
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http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070201/features-firefox.html
Microsoft's browser market share drops 9.5 percent in a year
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| Microsoft Explorer's share of the browser market has fallen almost 10 percent
| in the past 12 months, to 63.9 percent, mostly at the expense of Firefox
| which has boosted its share from 11.8 to 17.4 percent.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14373/1054/
Firefox passes 400 million downloads
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| Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread
| Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773836-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Firefox takes 28% market share in Europe
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| All European countries saw an increase in Firefox participation with Hungary
| showing the most dramatic increase from 27.2%, in the latest March 2007
| survey, to 39.7%. Overall, Europe grew from 24.1% to 27.8%.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/firefox-takes-28-market-share-in-europe/
IE6: The zombie browser
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| Paul Graham's much-dissected essay Microsoft is Dead offers some witty and
| perceptive analysis, but it sidesteps the fact that Microsoft's rotten corpse
| will take decades to decompose.
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http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2007/09/ie6-the-zombie-.html
IE7 Bites the Dust! Firefox 2.0 Did It!
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| In the same three months, Internet Explorer 7 only managed to move up from
| 32.02% to 33.15% and to 33.55%, meaning that in the past two months IE7 only
| jumped 1.53%.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/IE7-Bites-the-Dust-Firefox-2-0-Did-It-64490.shtml
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