14 DAY TRIAL // Tristan Nitot is the president of Mozilla Europe, the company which created the famous Firefox browser, currently installed on millions of computers from all around the world. During an interview with TechCrunch UK, the Mozilla official admitted the company doesn't like the Microsoft monopoly and should give the users the power to choose their browser. As you know, the Windows operating system comes with Internet Explorer as the default browser but numerous users prefer to install Mozilla Firefox for several reasons.
"IE was getting more and more obsolete in development terms. The Internet was stalling because of this," he said according to TechCrunch UK. "We are not against Microsoft, but we are against Microsoft's monopoly [of the browser market]."
As you might have heard, the Cupertino company Apple recently joined the browsers competition and released Safari for Windows, a special version of its application meant to run on the Microsoft operating system. The Mozilla official thinks that it would be better to form an alliance with Apple in order to compete with the other solutions available on the web.
"We don't want to incorporate features for the sake of features - only where it makes sense for the user experience. My dream is that they eventually pick the Mozilla / Gecko / Webkit combination and give up Safari. We see Safari and Firefox as allies in bringing diversity to the Web," the Mozilla CEO said for the same source.
At this time, the competition for the best web-browser is quite important for numerous companies and they are continuously aiming to release better products. Firefox and Internet Explorer were always described as the favorites to win the battle while Opera and Safari come as alternatives for the two giants.
If you want to read the entire interview with the Mozilla Europe president, you can visit the official page of TechCrunch UK available here.