Short clip: Mozilla's role in the browser wars

Dan Farber: Microsoft has a browser and they have about 70 percent market share, and obviously they've woken up to what you have accomplished at Firefox, with Firefox. But, recently Google, which is a source of your revenue, has come up with a browser called Chrome and there seems to be a raging debate in the industry about, you know which browser is better and faster. Obviously you think yours is better and faster, but I have seen some tests recently in which the Chrome browser is faster. Is this a temporary situation? Brendan Eich: It's really a neck-and-neck race. There is a contest going on not only between Google and Mozilla, but also Apple to have the fastest JavaScript engine, to have the best performance on various benchmarks and this is great. Competition is good for users and for web developers. Another focus for us, especially for me is the web developers, the set of users who are actually also write web content. So, we are right in there, we are slugging it out. On the Google benchmarks their JavaScript engine is faster, on Apple's benchmarks -- we're faster than Google currently. It is going to vary, you are going to see it go back and forth, so it is only going to go up which is the best thing for developers and that is what we are focused on.

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