Interview with Mozilla Global CEO: the most potential Chinese market



Mozilla Corporation CEO Yuehanlili (John Lilly) recently told ZDNet interview, said that despite the global market with approximately 24% market share in Poland, Indonesia and other countries with more than 50% market share, Yuehanlili still think China is the most potential market for the future.

Yuehanlili that Firefox a few years ago very little market share to a quarter of the users now have the world's four years of market share is always in progress. Turning to the performance in the Chinese market, Yuehanlili that just started in the Chinese market, China currently has only 5% of the market. Yuehanlili said the current strategy is to stay in China, "the Firefox product in a more in China, the Chinese Internet users love."

Speaking of competition with Microsoft IE, Yuehanlili that Firefox in the top of the speed and security than Microsoft's outstanding performance, but systems based on Microsoft's bundling and other reasons, Microsoft still holds the world's markets.

In July, Microsoft announced that Microsoft will no longer bundled in the European market in IE browser, operating system, Windows 7, but subsequently renounced the plan. Yuehanlili said that even if Microsoft is really in Europe, the implementation of this plan, impact on their market share is not large, because "although not binding in the system, IE, Microsoft and computer manufacturers will be preinstalled on IE."

Yuehanlili that all browsers are very similar, while Firefox has a unique area in the plug-in advantage. Yuehanlili that Firefox has more than 1000 plug-in providers, but now they have no profit model, all providers are available free of charge for the Firefox add-ons.

View of the current popular mobile browser market is gradually topic Yuehanlili said the company's mobile browser is in public beta stage, but he said, "is gradually get mobile browser market."