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Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue, rumors say Firefox coming to PS3
By Matthew DeCarlo

The Mozilla Foundation has revealed some financial figures from last year, showing 5% rise in revenue to $79 million during 2008. Much of that money came from the foundation's search ad deal with Google, which currently lasts through 2011.

Unfortunately, that growth has tapered off dramatically in the last couple of years. For comparison, in 2007 the Mozilla Foundation reported $75 million in revenue, a 12% increase over 2006. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker goes into much greater depth on her blog, if you are interested.

Dollars aside, Mozilla's Firefox has steadily climbed to the world's second most used Web browser, chipping away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox currently holds approximately one quarter of the global market share, and recently surpassed IE6, the most used version of Internet Explorer.

In somewhat related news, a rumor sprouted today which suggests that Sony may have plans to use Firefox on its PlayStation 3 console. The move is surely welcomed by most, as the PS3's built-in browser is considered to be less reliable and accurate at handling websites than a desktop-grade browser.

Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue, rumors say Firefox coming to PS3

If they had kept their Linux support, they would already have Firefox.

trailz wrote:

Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue, rumors say Firefox coming to PS3

If they had kept their Linux support, they would already have Firefox.

I put Linux on my ps3 on time and it sucked really bad. The file system was not compatible with my PC so none of my jump drives or data disks would work with it. Also, it was insanely slow and it had Firefox but it didn't have Flash. In my opinion Linux on the ps3 sucked, but hopefully the ps3 Firefox will have the newest full version of Flash which would make it awesome.

ultimateninja9 wrote:I put Linux on my ps3 on time and it sucked really bad. The file system was not compatible with my PC so none of my jump drives or data disks would work with it. Also, it was insanely slow and it had Firefox but it didn't have Flash. In my opinion Linux on the ps3 sucked, but hopefully the ps3 Firefox will have the newest full version of Flash which would make it awesome.

Oh, wow, really? I've never had problems with flash drives, they're FAT32 and always work perfectly for me. If you have external hard drives and formatted them on Windows, they are NTFS. Not all distros have out-of-the-box support for it, but it does exist. I'd heard the PS3 didnt provide a good graphics driver, but with all those cores, I would think softpipe would be more than enough for the desktop. Flash in my experience has always sucked. Nothing to say about that.

damn! lol this only makes me hate the PS3 even more! why cant we (xbox360 users) have this!?