Article Source CNET News
October 21, 2009, 4:00 am
October 21, 2009, 4:00 am
John Lilly wants it both ways.
Working at Mozilla Corporation since 2005 and as chief executive since early 2008, he helped oversee a remarkable achievement. Mozilla has built the Firefox browser from a largely unsuccessful remnant of the Netscape era of the 1990s into the browser that nearly a quarter of people on the Web use. Now the challenges are different.
First, for new growth, Mozilla must make its open-source browser appeal to an even more mainstream crowd, one that’s more interested in working and playing online than in sticking it to Microsoft or being part of a cause. Second, it’s got to keep the loyalty of the technically savvy early adopters and Web developers that Google now has been courting with its Chrome browser…
