From DailyTech: The Mozilla Foundation has published a blog summarizing a recent all hands meeting held at Whistler in Vancouver, BC. Among the highlights is a soft promise that Windows 10 will be a priority.
The promise is soft as Mozilla did not commit to a definitive release date for the platform. But it did promise a Windows 10 build would come "soon". It also says the same for the long anticipated iOS mobile build of Firefox.
The pressure is on Mozilla with the launch of Windows 10 on July 29. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) -- long a laggard of the browser world speed and extensibility wise -- will launch a brand new browser dubbed "Edge" with the OS upgrade. The new browser is significantly faster than past builds of Internet Explorer and promises support for third party extensions. While consumer reaction remains to be seen, one might expect Edge to cannibalize some market share from Mozilla and Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chrome.
Speaking of Chrome, Firefox has also been feeling the pressure from its tops third party rival, Google. A year ago Chrome was neck and neck with Firefox, with 19.6 percent market share to Firefox's 15.2 percent, according to market share data from Net Applications. As of June 2015, though, Firefox has fallen far behind with 12.1 percent market share, less than half of Chrome's 27.2 percent. (StatCounter, another market share tracker, notes similar trends, albeit w/ different percentages.)
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