The Mozilla project

Tristan Nitot

President, Mozilla Europe

What about telling you a story?

http://www.nitot.com/mozilla/hollandopen06/

Gutenberg and the printing press

The Web is an Open system

1989-1992: Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist with CERN, invents the Web, based on three royalty-free Open concepts: HTML, URL, HTTP

But with 1 billion people now being on-line, the temptation to take a piece of the Internet and make it proprietary is huge.

Why the Web is great

The 3 Cs:

Mozilla's mission is to "promote Choice and Innovation on the Internet"

State of the Mozilla Project

Mozilla Foundation and the Project

Mozilla by the Numbers

The Mozilla Recipe

Mozilla Firefox web browser

What's new in Firefox 1.5?

Marketshare for a recent Sunday

Firefox Market share in the World

Source : XitiMonitor.com. Figures from Sunday 20060108.

Probably around 50 to 60 million Firefox users worldwide.

The Road Ahead

Firefox roadmap: Firefox 2, codename Bon Echo

Firefox roadmap: Firefox 3

Participating in the Mozilla Project