Mozilla has released their 2009 earnings statement this week, which shows explosive revenue growth for the company.
In 2008, Mozilla had $78 million in revenue, with sales surging to $104 million last year.
It is still unclear how exactly sales jumped so much, but the statement says “a majority of Mozilla revenue continues to be generated from the search functionality included in Mozilla’s Firefox product from organizations such as Google, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, eBay and a handful of others.”
One such example is how Google gives Mozilla a tiny piece of its search ad revenue as long as Mozilla makes Google the default search engine in the popular Firefox browser.
That deal will last through the end of 2011.
Expenses increased to $61 million in 2009.
140 million users worldwide actively use the Firefox browser.
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Mozilla had updated their popular Firefox browser to version 3.6.4 today, adding “crash protection.”
Crash Protection isolates third-party plug-ins when they crash, if you are using the Windows or Linux versions of the browser, allowing the main browser to remain stable.
If you are watching videos online, or playing games that require a third-party plug-in and that plug-in freezes, users can simply refresh their page and continue browsing “uninterrupted.”
As of version 3.6.4, Firefox offers “crash protection” for Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight.
Firefox currently controls about 26 percent of overall browser market share.
Download the latest Firefox here: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4
For more info on Crash Protection: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Crash_Protection
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This weekend, Mozilla released the long-anticipated mobile browser, Firefox Mobile 1.0, for the Nokia Maemo.
Hoping to take market share from more established players like Opera, the Firefox browser will include customizable browser extensions as well as Weave Sync, the bookmark and history-syncing extension.
Nokia’s open source Maemo OS is only available on the N900 and N810, and the first release will also not include Flash support, which Mozilla fired at Adobe about, citing poor standard of quality. For those hoping to use YouTube without a stand-alone app, you can download the YouTube Enabler add-on.
Windows Mobile is next on the timetable, with Android coming third. Hopefully by then it will be a fully workable browser.
