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I grew up as an only child.
We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.
The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.
Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.
Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.
When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.
The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.
The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.
Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well.
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.
Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't.
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.
When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.
IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it.
We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.
Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.
Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.
I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.
We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."
The sex symbol thing's a little bit different for me. Usually, like whenever there's a picture of me, there's always this set of things that comes out like, 'Oh my god, she's so ugly.'
I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.
The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.
We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.
I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!
WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.
We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.