Firefox, every mention

The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired Feb 15, 2022 · 32 mentions

• ▶ 1:14 Ben Gilbert He holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there, and Brendan was the chief architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.
• ▶ 20:58 Ben Gilbert Which became the way that you would write the original browser plugins for Firefox and presumably the Mozilla browser before that.
• ▶ 21:44 Ben Gilbert Firefox at some point became, gosh, over a quarter of the browser market share.
• ▶ 25:05 Brendan Eich And so we started growing Mozilla even before Firefox in a way that I think
• ▶ 27:23 Brendan Eich And we knew what to do in the summer summer because Firefox had already started in, in, in, if you can believe it,
• ▶ 27:29 Brendan Eich But it became known as Phoenix by 2002.
• ▶ 27:32 David Rosenthal And Firefox was completely rebuilt from the ground up, right?
• ▶ 28:02 Brendan Eich And it was the way Firefox got built, because once we had the suite unbadged of all the ICQ junk, we still had sort of too many functions.
• ▶ 28:42 Brendan Eich It was a pretty good roadmap in my opinion, because it got the project moving toward not only Firefox, but Thunderbird and even the old suite.
• ▶ 28:55 Brendan Eich But Firefox was originally Mozilla slash browser in 2001.
• ▶ 29:23 Brendan Eich I had to recruit Ben Goodger out of Netscape to take over for Blake, and that went from Firefox, 0.6 on to one oh, and Ben did a lot of the important work on add-ons and search integration and making it really sing on Windows.
• ▶ 30:01 Ben Gilbert And it seemed like Firefox was right place, right time with the right group of people who were actually passionate about this,
• ▶ 30:38 Brendan Eich Kind of sassing Netscape management for their foolish bloated suite, and also making great tools and things that Hewitt worked on, Firebug and the autocomplete stuff, and that led to early adopters loving it so much more than all the other…
• ▶ 31:04 Brendan Eich And at that point, we, I'd made contact with Sergey Brin through somebody he sent my way named Fritz Schneider, and we'd gotten the search deal going in 0.9, but we'd also gotten Fritz's team, the gin team at Google helping Firefox.
• ▶ 31:16 Brendan Eich So they were working on browsers before Chrome, and the browser to work on was Firefox.
• ▶ 31:22 Brendan Eich The conventional wisdom still was that you're never going to take back market share, even though Firefox already had a few million users and was growing rapidly.
• ▶ 31:30 Brendan Eich Uh, and this did convince some people who worked with us at the time, like Bart DeCreme, to go try a commercial fork of Firefox.
• ▶ 34:22 Ben Gilbert Firefox did really, really well and gained a huge market share, and then when Chrome launched, it's been slowly etched away every year by Chrome now, and it's down around something like three percent.
• ▶ 34:50 Brendan Eich So yeah, the flock was doing social or web two point O image at the very center of Firefox's growing market.
• ▶ 34:56 Brendan Eich And that's not a good growth strategy because you have to get people off Firefox and then somehow beat them on the, on the outer rings of growth.
• ▶ 35:02 Brendan Eich And Firefox was already going faster there and you weren't going to get too many defectors from the
• ▶ 36:49 Brendan Eich So having done Firefox and been in the situation where we, we didn't even have the best privacy features.
• ▶ 37:05 Brendan Eich Neither of these things were in Firefox at the time.
• ▶ 38:24 Brendan Eich Don't worry about Firefox.
• ▶ 38:29 Brendan Eich We knew that they were at that point pulling people off Firefox.
• ▶ 41:55 Brendan Eich Our growth with Firefox when I was there was completely organic, I think.
• ▶ 48:56 Brendan Eich It was something that maybe can't be solved without really doing a second browser and marketing it as a companion to Firefox.
• ▶ 49:16 Brendan Eich It would undermine Firefox at some point, and it would have been bad for morale.
• ▶ 1:03:38 Brendan Eich Oh, at the time Firefox has a custom Adobe deal.
• ▶ 1:06:13 Brendan Eich And having those lead users favor, you know, Firefox in its day or Brave Now is super important.
• ▶ 1:12:18 Brendan Eich It's a refrain from the early days of Firefox.
• ▶ 1:37:23 Brendan Eich People switch from Firefox.