Comments for Life @ Mozilla

Comment on 250 by dria

dria — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:31:48 +0000

I guess it depends how you count. Yes, Mozilla employs 250 people, but we couldn’t do what we do without the tens of thousands of contributors who volunteer their time and work and skills. Without them we wouldn’t have even a fraction of the alpha and beta testing we have, there would be no MDC, no SUMO, no Spread Firefox, no Community Store, no MozCamps. We wouldn’t have the thousands of extensions and themes that make Firefox the customization powerhouse it is. We wouldn’t have 75 localizations.

So, while saying “we’re 250 battling against three enormous armies” sounds very romantic, it’s not exactly true. We have a pretty massive army of our own, driven by a genuine belief in and passion for our cause. And we would not exist without them.

Comment on 250 by Turtle

Turtle — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:23:55 +0000

Sorry for the bad spelling.

Comment on 250 by Turtle

Turtle — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:22:42 +0000

Mozilla and the Firefox team have done great work with speed and compatibility as well as so to speak opened the door easily allowing for add-ons something Apple and Google didn’t try and something Microsoft tr yd but didn’t seceded as well as Mozilla did the attempted to open the door to extinctions from what I understand there add-on process is much harder on the extension developer and there for only partially opening the door now with Mozilla Labs JetPack they have opened the door as far as I can see it going for a while. Mozilla has given us a chance to make it feel more like home. In a seance Chrome, Safari, and IE are empty houses. But Firefox starts there but then you can add things a personal weather center like ForcastFox and change the wall paper with themes so in a sense Mozilla gives you an internet home and lets you make it yours. They are also the repair men working on your home when it breaks when they make it better and the best part is they give this great extensibility for FREE. Not to mention they also give this great speed. I would like to say thank you Mozilla.

Comment on 250 by Ian Thomas (thelem)

Ian Thomas (thelem) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:22:27 +0000

Its an even more interesting statement when you ask why that market would have looked like without Firefox…

* Vista ships with IE6.1, basically a few bug fixes and propriatory HTML extensions. Still no support for alpha blending.
* Safari available on Mac only
* Chrome not even written

Only speculation of course, but it does make you think.

Comment on 250 by Chris Ilias

Chris Ilias — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:53:45 +0000

I think it’s a testament to the contributions of the greater Mozilla community of volunteers.

Comment on 250 by Sunny Singh

Sunny Singh — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:47:07 +0000

I agree with Gabriela, you just feel so connected and secured with Firefox and is much better than any other browser, especially Internet Explorer. The FF team just keeps coming out with updates that solves all my problems, and I’m surprised they keep finding any.

The web is definitely better with Firefox, and that is why I went out of my way for it. I recommend everyone else to do the same.

Comment on 250 by Across the Stars » Blog Archive » THIS IS MOZILLAAAAAA

Across the Stars » Blog Archive » THIS IS MOZILLAAAAAA — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:44:01 +0000

[...] Very cool. [...]

Comment on 250 by Justin Dolske

Justin Dolske — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:15:17 +0000

The 300-50… This is MOZILLAAAAAAA!

Comment on 250 by Gabriela

Gabriela — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:50:15 +0000

Well, of course Firefox is worth the trouble!!! It’s always changing for the better, you’re always aware of issues and try to fix them as soon as you can. As soon as you finish one release you’re already working for the next. It gives me the amazing feeling it’s a live browser, surely the best ever!!!

Comment on Tank, they need an exit by Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:05:37 +0000

Good that someone speaks this out loud. Ops get too little credit for their work. Everybody knows about them when something goes wrong, but in fact that this happens so rarely and that an incredible mass of things is running flawlessly almost all the time deserves some credit.
Oh, and I don’t think they’ll take the exit. You know, they usually know there’s just more work waiting when the phone starts ringing…