Firefox faces browser clone war in China
Summary
The browser war in China is heating up but not quite in a way that resembles the Western markets, as Mozilla's Beijing chief explains.
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The browser war in China is heating up but not quite in a way that resembles the Western markets, as Mozilla's Beijing chief explains.
While browser makers in overseas markets often tout their products' Web page rendering speeds and ability to run richer apps, China's browser landscape calls for customized browser versions that bring additional features in order to demonstrate value to users.
According to Li Gong, chairman and CEO of Mozilla's Beijing-headquartered subsidiary, Mozilla Online, the proliferation of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) clones and the dominance of pages coded for IE are among some of the barriers Firefox faces in the country.
An IE clone is a browser built on IE's core rendering engine, but carries a different skin and has additional features. Citing numbers from iResearch, Li said there are some 30 different clones in use in China.
For more, read "Firefox faces browser clone war in China" on ZDNet Asia.
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Come on ZDNet!!!!
Is this really newsworthy????
Parassassin18th Nov 2009 -
Newsworthy? That's not the point...
ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.
If they had written "Dirt is cheap, and water is wet" as the headline for the thread, you would have clicked on the link to read further.
I admit, I was looking for something more "newsworthy" after reading the title above. But, ZDNet gets the last laugh and more eyes on their pages.
adornoe@...18th Nov 2009 -
Newsworthy?
Oh! Gee! we don't want to know about anything outside the
US, because the US is the center of the Universe. There are
only 1.3B people in China, and their economy is holding the
US up from going bankrupt, (they hold all the loan paper) but
who the hell cares. Right!!!
bigpicture18th Nov 2009 -
Your obtuseness might be noteworthy and "newsworthy"...
Neither my comments nor the itty-bitty content in the article were about the Chinese versus the American economy.
So, go back and read the article and then go back and read my post. You'll notice that none of the content mentioned the China vs American economy, nor was the itty-bitty content about the browser done in relation to the economies; it also was not about our debt or about trade or about us owing the Chinese a lot of money.
Get it????
Now, since you brought it up, do you believe that China would ever try to "cash in" our debt to them? Which country and why, would be hurt the most?
You took this thread in a different direction and I'm quite willing to test you and challenge your own knowledge on the matter.
By the way, whether you want to accept it or not, even under the deep recession that the U.S. is experiencing right now, the U.S. is still the "center of the universe" when it comes to the economic health of the entire world. The Chinese know it and so do most people, whether they want to admit it or not openly.
Now, let me clue you in again...
I criticized the article for being about virtually nothing of substance. There was nothing to speak of and I was basically chastising the writer of the article for burdening the readers of this blog about an article that was not "newsworthy". If the article had been about economies, then I'm pretty sure that I would not have criticized the way I did. Do you understand now? Or do I have to explain it in finer detail for you?
adornoe@...18th Nov 2009 -
Excellent response
I think most of the folks reading it will gain something from it, if only to focus their attention on some of the inane posts of that type, so, hopefully, there will be less of them in the future.
softwareFlunky19th Nov 2009 -
Communication in the USA is extremely is limited
I have family and very dear friends in the USA and I like American people. But your news and press are extremely limited in the way they impart any information of what is happening outside of the USA, what is reported is probably less than 1% of what is actually happening in the world which is really sad.
I have two of my American nieces living in my house whilst they are doing a post graduate PhD. at university here in the UK and they are amazed at the difference in the news media reporting of whats happening in the world today.
My country has a special relationship and allegiance with you. Our sons and daughters are serving and dieing together in world conflicts..so please do not be the bigot just because the story is not your "scene"! The author is trying to make you aware of the reality of the real world, so please give him the respect and concordance that he deserves. Thank you
Richard Turpin19th Nov 2009 -
Operator?
Give me information.
zclayton218th Nov 2009 -
RE: Firefox faces browser clone war in China
He's right. The article wasn't much more than a headline.
I was expecting to read about the how the different browsers affect the economy and how they are affecting
Mozilla.
badkid3218th Nov 2009 -
McStory
no real meat in it, just like the burgers.
oldbaritone19th Nov 2009 -
Tempest in a Teapot
It appears that the author did not mention that the Chinese "cracked" M$ code. Now that would be interesting. As published, I agree with those above. Much ado about nothing.
Sagax-19th Nov 2009 -
ZDNet? : How does one go about using IE's core rendering engine?
And what type of "additional features" were added? These are the things that should be in this article to give it some substance, otherwise it's just fluff; like too many recent ZDNet articles.
By the way, who is your direct competition? I want to check them out.softwareFlunky19th Nov 2009 -
IE based browsers in china
Look up "maxthon" on Google. It was originally written in China. In the US, it's a much better browser than IE itself. It had features such as tabbed browsing long before Microsoft, Opera, OR Firefox added them. Plus, since it uses the IE core, it renders pages just the way IE would.
Look up the article on Mozilla's blogs by Ghen Kanai, "Web Browser Marketshare in China" http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2009/09/15/web-browser-marketshare-in-china/
This references the original article in Global times by Zhao Qian "microsoft melting" or "Chinese browsers are putting the heat on Internet Explorer"
http://business.globaltimes.cn/industries/2009-09/465112.html
janitorman19th Nov 2009 -
RE: Firefox faces browser clone war in China
In China security is the biggest issue. I receive several attempts an hour to highjack (Shanghai?) my machine. Thanks to Kaspersky I am winning at present but when certain agencies run contests for hackers and hire the winners, where the future lies????
awesome22_4@...19th Nov 2009 -
RE: Firefox faces browser clone war in China
In China security is the biggest issue. I receive several attempts an hour to high jack (Shanghai?) my machine. Thanks to Kaspersky I am winning at present but when certain agencies run contests for hackers and hire the winners, where the future lies????awesome22_4@...19th Nov 2009 -
IE based browsers in china
To get to the bottom of what the article really was talking about you need to do some research. The article was only a starting point if you're interested in this subject.
Here are a couple links as noted in my reply to "softwareFlunky" that cover this subject more in depth:
http://business.globaltimes.cn/industries/2009-09/465112.html
http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2009/09/15/web-browser-marketshare-in-china/janitorman19th Nov 2009
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