Mozilla in Brazil

This week and in the next, we are having a visit from some Mozilla guys down here in Brazil, Asa Dotzler and J T Batson, They have a very tight schedule and we are trying to get a closer involvement with them. My entire team uses Firefox to develop, it’s easier and faster to develop web applications than any other browser, I’ve being using Firefox since version 0.7 and am anxious about the third version, Gran Paradiso.

At Globo, the numbers of Firefox audience is growing consistently, of course IE7, already surpassed Firefox, but it’s not fair to compare the ways IE7 use to spread itself. At our products, Firefox 2.0.0.4 and 2.0.0.3 are the most popular versions of FF (75%) then it comes 1.5.0.11(6%), IE still is the dominant browser with almost 92%.

I think Firefox has a lot of opportunity in Brazil, despite recent boom of PC sales, the majority of Brazilian PCs are very limited in resources and installing an IE can be very painful, in adding to that certainly most of the Windows instalations are pirate. Firefox is a great option for this users because is free, small and more secure than IE.

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