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January 13, 2008
Shipping complete browsers
Shipping complete browsers: Interesting way of looking at things, in a BusinessWeek profile of Mozilla's efforts to break beyond 2% audience share in China: "While Firefox offers 4,000 add-ons, they are all in English. 'A lot of people in China use the Internet to watch movies or listen to music. It would make things easier if Firefox included these add-ons instead of forcing the users to look for the add-ons on the Internet,' says Shen Xiaodong, 24, a Web site designer helping a Beijing startup make sure its Web site is compatible with six different Web browsers." I can appreciate the need to keep downloads lean, but accessing popular audio and video sites automatically from the start might provide a friendlier experience overall. (Related: Netscape 2001; most everyone today.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at January 13, 2008 5:31 PM