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Firefox Strikes Deal with Chinese Search Engine Giant Baidu

Mozilla Foundation already created a nonprofit branch in China back in 2005
By Search News Desk
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December 9, 2007 07:45 PM EST
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Dr. Li Gong, co-chairman of the Chinese subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation, has announced a deal with Chinese search engine Baidu to help propagate the Firefox browser in the Middle Kingdom. From now on, China's domestic users who install the latest version of the Firefox browser (2.0.0.10) can enjoy the service.

The Chinese name for Mozilla Online is Mou-Zhi (literally, "Seeking Wisdom" - reminiscent perhaps of Google's mantra about organizing the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Firefox adoption in China currently lags far behind the market-share leader, Marathon. But with this formal cooperation agreement that may all be about to change.

Version 2.0.0.11 of Firefox was released on 30 November 2007.

Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. According to Mozilla COO John Lilly, FF had at least 125 million users as of November 2007.

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