According to the analysis, Firefox will be Facebook's biggest competitor

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla community development director, said today that although Firefox does not have the ability to record the number of users, the company expects that there are currently 0.27 billion Firefox browser users. This means that the number of Firefox users is 0.2 billion more than the number of registered Facebook users (35%), which is nearly three times the number of viewers (0.1 billion) per day.

Maybe I have doubts, why do I compare the number of users of browsers and social websites? The answer is that these two technologies may converge in the near future. The following are the reasons why we think Firefox should be Facebook's biggest competitor:

The data officially published by Firefox is quite conservative. Lee Mathews of the blog website DownloadSquad expects that the actual number of Firefox users should be close to 0.34 billion, which is 0.1 billion times that of Facebook's average daily views (3.5.

This is not an incomparable comparison between the two. Jeremiah Owyang, analyst at Forrester, a market research institute, shows the attractive future of browsers and social networking sites in its famous report "The future of social networking sites. In the report, he wrote: to improve the coverage of its Chrome browser, Google embeds the OpenID new logon system and friend contact information into the browser, firefox and Microsoft's IE browser will also copy this feature. Facebook and MySpace may also allow users to access the Internet in the Facebook environment to maintain social functions. This connection may not be perfect, but it expands the user experience to other websites by sharing IDs, helping social networks occupy other online communities and fields. As a result, with the maturity of the Portable ID, it will become a common part of the network experience in two years.

Only through logical reasoning can we conclude that the boundaries between browsers and social networking websites will become more vague and the two software will likely compete with each other.

Browsers are social networking websites. In less than a year, Firefox may seem completely different from today. Mozilla's pursuit of innovation far exceeded what we thought. Google, the company's biggest source of revenue, has released its own browser. Firefox and Facebook are both desperately seeking to create new models of advertising revenue. Although both models can depend on each other, neither of them dare to pack tickets.

A few weeks ago, it was reported that Firefox plans to embed the command line universal system into the address bar, which means that users' applications can be accessed and controlled through browsers.

If Facebook is increasingly like an operating system because of its application software platform, Firefox also has this advantage. Facebook released a desktop interface last week, and we can be confident that it will become more and more like a browser in the near future, but Firefox is already ahead in this field.

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