Mozilla Inks Deal With Chinese Search Giant 131
nm writes "The Mozilla Corporation's subsidiary in China has signed a deal with Chinese search engine giant Baidu. Baidu is already included as an option in Firefox's Chinese localization, but this deal formalizes the relationship between Mozilla and and the search company. Mozilla has established several other initiatives in China to help increase Firefox adoption, particularly in universities. The article notes that Firefox has seen limited uptake in China; the browser Maxthon is the second most popular after Internet Explorer. Maxthon is thought to have as much as 30 percent of the Chinese browser market."
IE is the best (Score:2, Interesting)
As it stands, the Mozilla family of browsers does not support it, so why would anyone in China want to use it? Beyond that, why would you want to introduce your brand to that market before implementing that support? I can see it now:
"Firefox? Hmm, I saw that a year ago... that's that one that shows all the pages sideways, right? No thanks."
Real smart move.
Re:google (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:IE is the best (Score:1, Interesting)
Maxthon, Trident (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:IE is the best (Score:2, Interesting)
Mozilla does lack ruby support, but that's usually used more for Japanese.
Re:diagonal! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:IE is the best (Score:3, Interesting)
Any word on rights protection? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Mozilla needs to be making deals with the banks (Score:1, Interesting)
I'd say the Chinese are definitely behind the times, and I guess they don't mind being slaves of an American corporation. China, still beholden to American technology, locked in for eternity, while the rest of the world throws off the bonds of M$. Interesting.