The future of Firefox: neither Dead nor alive.

After IE6, the first to Microsoft to bring the biggest trouble to Firefox. The two historical origins can be traced back to the browser wars of the early 90. In 1994, Netscape pioneered the world's first desktop browser, which, despite its limited functionality, has been a major success and an absolute leader in the browser market. Worried about Netscape's impact on its operating system, Microsoft's emergency takeover of a technology company and a bundled approach to Netscape have resulted in Netscape's swift demise and Microsoft's accusations of monopoly.

However, in fact, Netscape did not really disappear, it saved the strength of the original technology based on the new browser to build the core gecko, became the famous Mozilla Firefox, in early 21st century again sniper Microsoft, so that Microsoft was caught off guard, in its release a few years ago, Popularity soared and the weak IE6 's position was so precarious that Microsoft had to start the browser project again (after IE6 succeeded, Microsoft thought its technology was absolutely ahead of the technology team). Firefox peaked in 2009, with a market share of nearly 30%, and many users are still using XP's own IE6.

But that's when the Firefox browser was at its best, and it came to its downfall-September 2, 2008, when Google released its first beta version of Chrome, based on the new kernel WebKit, which was born out of Khtml, Apple advocates open source and gets support from partners including Google.

As an internet company, the importance of the platform is needless to reiterate, Google has been waiting to enter the browser market. In fact, just a few years ago, Google and Mozilla reached a cooperative agreement between the two sides in the browser technology cooperation, while Mozilla's browser search defaults to Google, so that Google each year to the Mozilla to pay 100 million of dollars, never thought of raising tigers infestation, Google has a mastery of Mozilla technology to build its own V8 engine, now, when we look at Google browser version can see "khtml, like Gecko", do not know how Mozilla feel. In the early days of the chrome release, the browser reached 3%, then immediately fell back to 2%, a small start, but the internet industry a great reform, will affect the future of the vast majority of our use of domestic browsers, mobile platform browser.

From the day Chrome appeared, consumers found that the best browser to replace IE was that Chrome,firefox began to fall out of favour. More importantly, chromium is open source, can be arbitrary crop compilation, resulting in a huge browser industry, we are familiar with the UC browser, QQ browser, no one is from chromium. Google created its own browser ecosystem, completely fragmented with webkit, so that a year ago when Google fork Blink from WebKit, many of the browser OEM manufacturers followed, opera is the first time announced to join the Blink , commenting on the Mozilla, a browser maker with its own browser kernel gave up its own soul. Yes, before Opera's Presto is an independent kernel, but its poor rendering efficiency and the poor support of emerging technologies, abandoned by The Times, now only the Trident,mozilla of IE Gecko, And Google's blink (Apple continues to webkit2), into a pillars.

IE behind Microsoft's backing, the share of nature do not worry, after the IE10 there are signs of more and more brave, QQ browser desktop version and Baidu Chihiro browser have abandoned dual-core mode, directly call IE kernel, rendering speed, HTML5 support good. Google does not personally shot, but its share will only be more than IE, this is not exaggerated, because of the intersection of statistics, Google Browser actually exceeded the share of IE in 2012, when we use the dual-core browser speed mode, it is to Google more than once, In China's largest market share of Qihoo Browser, the default mode is the speed mode, but only some of the net silver case to cut back to ie. On the mobile platform, Google has completely suppressed its opponents, although some companies claim their own core, but the core is based on chromium, the so-called own, but did some small changes in personality, so Google and his small partners to occupy the top of the browser.

And the most desolate than Mozilla, since 2009, its share has never increased, the last two years has been a frequent decline in the original belonging to the site is being Google a little bit of encroachment, in terms of mobile, Firefox almost no as, Android version of the poor speed and interaction, the iOS version is because The "soul" reason has been slow to begin to develop. The partnership agreement between Google and Mozilla expired in November 2011 and the two sides did not agree on a renewal, which would lead to the loss of Mozilla's main source of revenue. The general view is that if Firefox is stalled, most Firefox users will turn to chrome instead of IE.

What needs to be explained is, I did not blindly sing fade Firefox. Look at the question: Is it true that Firefox, which faces a slowdown in market share, really disappears?

The answer is no.

Even the Presto, which was abandoned recently, has not really disappeared, and it has contributed a number of important standards to the consortium, including CSS3, which, if not presto, may not be so elegant today. If there is no Google and Firefox, we can only continue to tolerate Microsoft's not motivated, it is because of their appearance, only to promote the development of the Internet, today, three browser standards created by the HTML5, is how great achievements, the Internet has ushered in a more rapid and convenient era. In fact, the biggest contribution to HTML is Mozilla, as an open source community, it has been spared from the inception of the world to promote the latest technology, in terms of inclusiveness and innovation, is unmatched by any commercial company. And Firefox so-called defects most embodied in the business promotion, its rendering speed is still very good, but Firefox is good at, but is any one can not, its powerful plug-ins are stolen division, development model is a Web page developers of the necessary artifacts, 10 years as a day of excellent products, Firefox has countless fans all over the world.

Do not underestimate the Firefox 16% market share, Mozilla almost no OEM, this is one of its companies, even if Google is embarrassed, in Indonesia and Europe, Firefox is the top of the top, The local government and the Internet are mostly reference to Firefox standards, at the same time, China's support for Firefox is more and more extensive, because of its security, network silver support second only to IE, such a glamorous company disappeared, it is impossible.

The times are constantly developing, as a non-profit organization, Firefox will continue to be a nameless and stunning presence in the browser, its strong technical power and open source of the vast expanse of the decision its innovation will not fail, but on the other hand, it is essentially an open source technical organization, No commercial expansion of consciousness, destined in the future competition will not be off. No matter the cloud is light wind, it will chongrubujing continue to live. I dare not suppose that the world would be without it, but I am sure that the world cannot be without it.