On Tuesday, an employee of the Firefox published a manual on the online forum of the Chinese language of Firefox owner Mozilla, in which instructions were given to users about how to backup data, configuration files and how to restore them.
Launched in 2004, the Open-SUS FIREFOX was known for sharp, more private and more customizable features, which was better than the major IE of that time. Mozilla, who is owned by non-profit Mozilla Foundation, said on its website that the company makes “Internet for people, not for profit”.
By 2009 it had become the second largest browser in the world, when its global market part had reached 30 percent, after 60 percent of IE. According to the data of the Internet traffic tracker Statcounter, as Mobile Internet’s circulation increased, Google’s Chrome overtook Firefox in November 2011, when Android operating system (OS) became more popular.
According to the 21st Century Business Herald, in 2008, Guo said that Mozilla did not pressurize the Chinese subsidiary to get a profit and “the only work was to increase market share”. Globally, Firefox was still in fourth place with 2.4 percent stake in June this year, Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Microsoft behind the edge. But its future in China was blurred as it faced local competition.
In June, it was only the eighth most popular browser on the mainland, holding less than 1 percent of the market. This was not only behind three Western players, but also the QQ Browser of local browsers such as Alibaba Group Holding’s UC Browser and Tenseant Holdings, which were in fourth and fifth place respectively, statistical data showed.
