Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler at Mozilla, posted a huge message on the Mozilla blog to underline the company's 2006 financial results and to mention some numbers recorded by the company's applications. Mozilla's revenues were no less than $66,840,850 and the firm's official admits an important part of the money come from the super search giant Google. "As in 2005 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from Google", he wrote on the blog. The 2006 expenses were only $19,776,193 so the profit is pretty impressive for the Firefox producer.

"Mozilla's revenue in 2006 exceeded our expenses. Our assets at the end of 2006 were $74,148,710, up from $52,396,387 at the end of 2005. In 2007 we expect our expenses to be significantly higher as we have continued to hire and fund more people and develop additional programs."

But the interesting numbers come from the top application at Mozilla, the Firefox browser. Although I'm sure you know, Firefox is an application available in numerous languages and this makes the browser pretty popular in numerous regions of the world. "The geographical distribution of Mozilla contributors and usage has expanded significantly. In November of 2006 we shipped Firefox 2 in 37 languages. Thunderbird 2.0 shipped in 33 languages. We're adding more languages all the time; Firefox 2 is now available in 44 languages and Thunderbird in 36", the Mozilla official explained.

According to the representative, no less than 120 million Internet users installed Firefox on their computers, in order to browse the web safer than with other applications. "Already about 120 million people use Firefox and enjoy a safer, more personal browsing experience. Millions use the Thunderbird email client and enjoy an open email experience."

If you want to read all the 2006 Mozilla financial results as well as other numbers concerning the Firefox producer, read the entire blog post available here.