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In 2004, Chris managed and executed the first worldwide release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, which launched that November. Firefox 1.0 helped to fulfill the Mozilla Foundation’s goal of supporting open Web standards and provide innovation and choice for Internet client software and set Firefox on a path to remarkable marketshare growth over the last several years. | In 2004, Chris managed and executed the first worldwide release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, which launched that November. Firefox 1.0 helped to fulfill the Mozilla Foundation’s goal of supporting open Web standards and provide innovation and choice for Internet client software and set Firefox on a path to remarkable marketshare growth over the last several years. | ||
Chris now develops partnerships with companies that test, develop and distribute Mozilla technology in a variety of ways. He also helps to build out the Mozilla communities around the world that are involved with localization of Firefox in to over 40 languages. He engages with security researchers to help improve browser security, and works on a variety of mobile initiatives using the Mozilla technology. | Chris now develops partnerships with companies that test, develop and distribute Mozilla technology in a variety of ways. He also helps to build out the Mozilla communities around the world that are involved with localization of Firefox in to over 40 languages, and provide support to Firefox users. He engages with security researchers to help improve browser security, and works on a variety of mobile initiatives using the Mozilla technology. | ||
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Popping the cork on the bottle of champagne when the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 download packages were added to the Mozilla Web site and the first downloads started to trickle in. Seeing the turn around in market share growth for Firefox has been a tremendous success story for the Foundation and the project. | |||
== Asa Dotzler == | == Asa Dotzler == |