Why “Browsers are Hot Again!”

Last week Mozilla’s VP of Engineering Mike Shaver spoke at the Churchill Club on a panel entitled, “Browsers are Hot Again!”, moderated by Businessweek columnist Steve Wildstrom. Joining him on the panel were representatives from Microsoft (Dean Hachamovitch), Opera (Christen Krogh) and Google (Sundar Pichal).

Below is coverage from the event, including articles in CNET, InfoWorld, and TechCrunch. The overall theme through the coverage was the feeling of increased competition.  Paul Krill writes, “While it appeared Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had won the browser battle five years ago, things have changed with the advent of mobile browsers, Firefox and Safari, Wildstrom said”.

Mike Arrington highlighted the importance of the Mozilla community, “Mozilla’s Shaver said Firefox was about ‘putting the web first’ and creating a standards-compliant browser in as many languages as possible to ensure that no one was left out of the Internet”.

Why “Browsers are Hot Again!”