Mozilla's New CEO Talks DataPortability and the Future of Firefox
Sean Ammirati posted a 20 minute podcast interview and transcript with new Mozilla CEO John Lilly tonight and Lilly has some interesting things to share about the future of the organization. Data Portability, the forthcoming version of Firefox (Firefox 3, available in beta now), mobile Firefox and the Mozilla Weave "cloud computing for the browser" project are among the topics the two discuss.
A couple of excerpts are below but check out the full audio and transcript at ReadWriteTalk. Sean has an amazing knack for scoring interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry, the show is definitely worth a subscription.
On the next version of Firefox
John Lilly: Firefox 3 is the killer browser. And I think I’ve been using the Beta since Beta 1 and Beta 2 is even better. Even in the Beta, we’ve surpassed the quality of Firefox 2. So I already encouraged my mom and my grandmother to update their Firefox 3 Beta 2. I thinks it’s a killer product. It holds up in a lot of new areas.
On Data Portability
Sean Ammirati: The Weave project is interesting. And it’s something that we’ve covered a lot at Read/Write Web or a couple of times at least. How does that relate in your mind to the DataPortability.org stuff?
John Lilly: Oh yes, that’s a good question. Yes we’ve talked about that this week. So I suspect that we’ll start to participate in DataPortability.org.They’ve got to start doing something sooner or later. So like doing the actual work there is going to be the key. Of course OAUTH and that kind of stuff we’ve starting to experiments with. That stuff will be very important for Weave. So I suspect we will start to participate in dataportability.org, but we haven’t yet.
Listen to their conversation, read the transcript and find relevant links at tonight's installation of ReadWriteTalk.
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Why don't firefox focus to improve their javascript performance?
It's simply sluggish and feels horrible. No competition to IE.
Try move an iframe (loaded with simple content) up and down a page. You'll get a glimpse of how terrible firefox is.
Instead of trying to brag about this and that and how great firefox is.
Or using questionable non-profit tactics to win users sympathy to your hundred-million-dollar-a-year enterprise.
just dumped firefox, after two years, for opera, looking for anything that won't crash several times a day ..
"firefox is not responding" got old up there at the top of the whited out screen
yeah, vista, don't know which is the culprit.... but still, from fan to frustrated in about a month
Bringing DataPortability.org with respect to Mozilla Weave highlighted a very good point about the product. As the current generation of products on the Internet evolve into the next, key in this emerging next generation are portability and user control -- both of which it is clear that Mozilla Weave is positioned for. It is definitely very interesting to watch Weave and how it evolves within and alongside Firefox 3.
I very recently explored the possibilities related to Mozilla's Weave and data portability, and you can read it here…
http://tpgblog.com/2008/01/21/modular-innovation-gets-a-weave/
Enjoy!
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
http://tpgblog.com