Mozilla
company on 4 shows · 8 statements across 2 episodes · said 55 times in 12 episodes since 2021
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Evans: Google pays roughly $15B for default search in Safari and Mozilla
“And so Google is paying something like fifteen billion dollars to be the default search engine in Mozilla and Safari and whatever else is out there, basically Mozilla and Safari.”
Evans: Mozilla would go out of business without Google search payments
“And the second problem is, of course, that almost all of Mozilla's revenue comes from this. And so if Google stops doing this, Mozilla goes out of business by default, and there's no competitive web browser, or the main competitive web browser, the main compet…”
Eich: AOL gave $2M over two years to spin out Mozilla
“Ted did the right thing and gave us two million over two years to spin out the Mozilla project.”
Eich: Mozilla created the first browser extension ecosystem before Chrome
“That was the first browser extension ecosystem way ahead of Chrome's.”
Eich: Apple Safari beat Firefox on privacy by blocking third-party cookies
“The very first Safari had private windows. It had a third party cookie blocker. Neither of these things were in Firefox at the time. Private windows came in quickly. We never shipped a third party cookie blocker in my time there.”
Eich: Mozilla became captured by Google and cannot compete on distribution
“When I was thinking about Brave, I realized not only had Mozilla become captured by its search partner and was probably going to die because it couldn't compete, not just on Chrome intrinsic qualities, but on distribution, which really matters at scale.”
Eich: Every Mozilla executive believed Google would eventually kill them
“I also at Mozilla thought, we're going to get killed by Google. I think every executive thought this at Mozilla.”
Eich tried to build a WebKit-based browser at Mozilla with Apple engineers
“And I actually talked at one point with Dave Hyatt about doing this. But I couldn't recruit them away from Apple, and I tried to get Hewitt as well, and it would have been a WebKit-based Mozilla browser, but it was too risky. I couldn't get the talent I needed…”