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" I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that. "

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" IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it. "

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" We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears. "

" We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. "

" We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "

" The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen. "

" So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet. "

" People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts. "

" We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. "

" The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. "

" We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing. "

" We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. "

" Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. "

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" We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor. "

" I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. "

" I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple! "

" WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko. "

" Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. "

" If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well. "

" I grew up as an only child. "

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" There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet. "

" I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable. "

" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "

" Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. "

" The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with. "

" The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history. "

" Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't. "

" The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. "

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" We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "

" When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it. "

" You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. "