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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Firefox comes up on Acquired, All-In, the a16z Podcast, Latent Space, 20VC
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 21:42 David Friedberg The Mozilla Foundation was formed to create an open source web browser called Firefox, and then Google ended up hiring everyone and made it Chrome, but it was still open source.
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- ▶ 29:44 Shawn Wang Um, and you can play Doom, you can do Firefox. 2 times in the scene
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 31:57 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Anthropics Mythos has written Firefox's approach to cybersecurity. 2 times in the scene
Making $$$ with OpenClaw
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:09:31 George Kurtz Yeah, so the state of the art is not switching out a browser, because if you use Comet or, you know, Firefox or whatever, you want to use the browser you have.
Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 36:45 Sridhar Ramaswamy You know, Firefox and Netscape had a brief moment in the sun and sort of petered out after that.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 49:04 Loïc Houssier So like more and more people are basically saying like, okay, let's go back to Firefox.
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 41:13 unnamed speaker At Orion, I've tried Firefox.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 22:52 Alex Rampell Well, the biggest problem right now for the internet writ large is, I, I would say the, uh, and I remember, I've talked to John Lilly, who was the original, he was the, the CEO of Firefox back in the day, um, and kind of an, an early web…
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 1:00:47 Jason Calacanis You know, penalties here, and they make sense doing deals that are exclusive when you are a monopoly player, like getting Firefox and Apple to only do an exclusive deal with you, they're not going to be allowed to do that. 2 times in the scene
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:03 David Rosenthal Instead, what they do is they decide that they are going to become the primary major benefactor for the new Mozilla Foundation and what would become Firefox.
- ▶ 1:58:37 David Rosenthal But then once Firefox actually gets released by Mozilla and deployed out there,
- ▶ 1:58:44 David Rosenthal The way Google starts supporting Mozilla and Firefox is through paying traffic acquisition costs to them to be the default search in the Firefox browser.
- ▶ 1:59:02 David Rosenthal Firefox is where this all starts with Mozilla.
- ▶ 1:59:34 Ben Gilbert But yes, Google has a long history of paying for distribution of their search engine and the new form that it is now taking is the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- ▶ 1:59:51 Ben Gilbert And by the way, I should say, Google becomes a giant contributor of source code to Firefox.
- ▶ 1:59:59 David Rosenthal So, a couple years, Google's paying Mozilla for default search in Firefox, basically funding Mozilla.
- ▶ 2:00:15 David Rosenthal Firefox engineers at Mozilla to come and work at Google directly, but they position this as like, essentially this is the same thing.
- ▶ 2:00:23 David Rosenthal We are still funding Mozilla and Firefox, just like, you know, you're Mozilla, you can't give these employees, these engineers stock options, like you're a nonprofit.
- ▶ 2:00:32 David Rosenthal How about instead they do the same thing that they're doing, which is working on Firefox.
- ▶ 2:01:36 David Rosenthal This was very clever on Larry and Sergey's part because of course these people doing Firefox are perfectly capable of going and doing another great web browser.
- ▶ 2:02:15 Ben Gilbert They kind of lost faith that Firefox was going to keep the pace and that Firefox was going to stay as high quality of a browser as they needed it.
- ▶ 2:10:50 Ben Gilbert Actually, what happened is it destroyed Firefox's market share.
- ▶ 2:10:55 Ben Gilbert I think the launch of Chrome and the peak of Firefox are right around the same time.
- ▶ 2:11:21 David Rosenthal When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% market share of browsers, and Firefox had most of the rest.
- ▶ 3:10:45 Ben Gilbert It's basically fourteen billion to the, the Android mobile carriers and OEMs, plus Firefox?
- ▶ 3:10:55 Ben Gilbert I'm gonna guess Firefox is less than a billion, call it somewhere around half a billion-ish.
- ▶ 3:11:12 Ben Gilbert Okay, so let's cut four billion off for Firefox and the other web properties.
Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- ▶ 12:10 John Coogan So even, even for, there's 30% of people out there that are using Firefox or Brave or, or, uh, Edge.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 50:27 John Coogan So, even, even for, there's 30% of people out there that are using Firefox or Brave or, or, uh, Edge.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:38:29 unnamed speaker So Firefox, which was, I believe like a spin out of Netscape or kind of like some of the same heritage there.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:45:22 Ben Gilbert They famously did a deal to become the default search engine in Firefox just as it was becoming popular, which served as Mozilla's main revenue source for decades.
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 24:31 Boris Cherny Internet Explorer six versus Oprah versus like Firefox and whatever.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 33:08 Bret Taylor Uh, you know, my understanding is that the, you know, Mozilla project, you know, there were so many security holes in Firefox.
- ▶ 1:36:36 Bret Taylor And, uh, there was much less XML support in Safari than there was in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 17:57 Zeno Rocha You know, Ajax and like IE six would render different than Opera and Firefox.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 11:46 Bret Taylor Uh, you know, we were crashing Firefox, like it was going out of style because 3 times in the scene
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:37 Sridhar Ramaswamy Yahoo, AOL, um, and then soon, uh, people like Firefox, um, and then all the PC manufacturers.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 17:19 David Friedberg And Chrome, similarly, you know, Google originally supported Firefox and gave a lot of money to Firefox, and then Firefox just wasn't moving fast enough, so Google started hiring Firefox engineers and built Chrome in-house as a way to keep… 3 times in the scene
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 56:46 Jason Calacanis It could result in a change in business practices, i.e. they cannot pay Firefox, Samsung, Apple to be the default search engine anymore.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:39 Ben Gilbert And you have Firefox coming on the scene starting around 2007 where it was really making a dent and Google was the default search from Firefox.
- ▶ 2:40:48 Ben Gilbert Firefox was awesome.
- ▶ 2:41:29 Ben Gilbert Let's say you're Firefox or Microsoft or Apple, and you don't have this incredible business model of people bidding on the keywords for search and all the R&D to go into making search good, but you actually do have the user attention, the…
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 1:14:43 Chamath Palihapitiya So by luck, we've had some modicum of consumer choice, but it's not as if Firefox did well. 2 times in the scene
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:13 Mike Schroepfer And I was like, Firefox, one dot O, when it came out, it's like big innovations were like tab browsing, pop-up blocking, and plug-ins. 2 times in the scene
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 18:00 Jason Calacanis And so just like Apple and Firefox were able to intercept search traffic, I think, and let's make a prediction here, that Meta's gonna get 10 points of the search market.
Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products wi...
- ▶ 12:44 Rob Walling He's like, do you mean my Firefox?
Episode 691 | Freemium, High-touch vs. Low-touch, Selling as an I...
- ▶ 9:22 Rob Walling He'll, he'll call me and say, I can't get, I can't find where Firefox is, because, like, the shortcut from the, you know, the homepage got deleted, and he doesn't know where to find it, right?
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 1:22:25 Josh Miller They built Chrome extensions just so they could, you know, have parity with Firefox.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:16 Alex Schultz I was there for a year, and then Blake Ross, the founder of Firefox, who was an incredible colleague, he wrote this lovely post about Prop A, for me as a gay man, about, like,
- ▶ 49:15 Alex Schultz I mean, he was really, really important and he'd founded Firefox and to see him and then Slee, who was like one of the most respected engineers of the whole company, those two, you know, it was, it was life changing for me.
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- ▶ 1:27:16 Jason Calacanis It just happened with Firefox as well. 3 times in the scene
How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
- ▶ 28:07 Dan Freckling Maybe you want to use a privacy-safe browser like Brave or Ghostery Dawn or Firefox, and like apps, you might want to delete unused browser extensions.
Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener...
- ▶ 37:58 Derrick Reimer I use Firefox. 3 times in the scene
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 18:07 Arielle Jackson If your name is Firefox, I have no idea what you did.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202
- ▶ 10:16 Shaan Puri Or Firefox or whatever.
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 10:46 Benedict Evans Um, and I really, and it's also very kind of half-baked, because they say that you're not allowed to pay, um, third-party browsers to be the default search engine, but that's Firefox's whole business model, so if they don't do that,… 2 times in the scene
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 37:53 Shane Parrish And so is Brave, and so is like, Firefox isn't there, is it? 2 times in the scene
NightEye App Lands 2500 Customers Using Unique SEO Fiverr Writing Stratetgy
- ▶ 2:33 Stanislav Dimitrov Uh, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Safari, Edge, the old Edge, the new Edge, pretty much we are everywhere, but, but, um, we started with the Chrome.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:22 Matt Cutts Bug bounties were invented in 1995 by Netscape, which was a browser that came before Firefox, for those of you who weren't, who weren't born then.
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 7:53 Vlad Magdalin Chrome and Firefox became like really powerful browsers.
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 54:43 Gabriel Weinberg And so on iOS, Android, Chrome, and Firefox, you can download either the browser, browser extension or our browser, and it has all the kind of essentials for search and browse.
a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- ▶ 1:24 Sonal Chokshi So if you're like a Chrome user, for example, or a Firefox Mozilla user, you're more likely to be along those lines than not. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 4:37 Benjamin Heinemann Internet Explorer, uh, Chrome, Firefox.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 25:16 Benedict Evans Versus Safari versus Firefox.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:19 Brian Donohue In April 2012, an important thing happens in this history, which is, uh, Read It Later Inc., which was, um, a read later company, uh, originally for, uh, Firefox, built for Firefox.
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