Download Firefox, Feed a Red Panda 90
KenW writes "Mozilla has launched a new marketing campaign to promote Firefox: adopting red pandas and putting them on live webcams. The company wants to underline the fact that the red panda is the mascot for its open source browser via a new section on its site called Firefox Live. It's clear that Mozilla is trying to think of new ways to promote its browser ahead of the launch of Firefox 4. The company has been struggling recently as Firefox steadily loses share to Google Chrome."
Shiny new toy syndrome (Score:5, Interesting)
I think one of the reasons Chrome is affecting Firefox is the "Shiny new toy syndrome" and FF lack of willingness to support business needs.
If using Chrome becomes as "cool" as it was when Firefox started, then Firefox will be in trouble.
On the business needs side, Firefox is still stalling on:
-an official MSI package for Windows platform (BTW: If FF MSI cannot auto-update, corps will love it more. It's a control thing...)
-official, built-in, GPO support
-official, built-in automated add-on installation
On the JavaScript side, however, FF is doing pretty good lately: http://arewefastyet.com/ [arewefastyet.com]