Comments on: Firefox on fire in Indonesia

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:48:51 +0000

@James John Malcolm: AMO is already localized into a number of languages. We’re open to any more that people want to do.

By: James John Malcolm

James John Malcolm — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:33 +0000

That brings up an interesting point: when will AMO be localised?

By: aerialsky

aerialsky — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:59 +0000

Yeps… I’m an Indonesian too like Pepo…^^

Many people here belive that Firefox is the fastest internet browser in the market and easy to understand all of its functions & GUI.

But, their knowledges about Add-ons Mozilla…. not much^^
I think if many Indonesian people know about AMO’s power, Firefox’s market share will spread more.

So let’s together spread knowledge about AMO for all!!! ^0^

By: Pandu E Poluan

Pandu E Poluan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:43 +0000

Hi, I’m Pandu, the admin of id-mozilla forum. I am an Indonesian. The reason why Firefox is so popular in Indonesia I think have to do with the low penetration of computers and Internet in our country; thus, the absolute majority of Internet users are tech-savvy users who understand the advantages of Firefox.

Plus, the pithy (i.e., so small it makes grown men cry) International bandwidth our country practically demands a fast browser, something that IE just can’t provide, not by a wide margin.

The absence of Indonesian Firefox does not hinder these users; why, they’ve been surviving various English-languaged OSes, so they are quite familiar with all the English terms in Firefox (and that begs an admittance: I am actually bewildered when I used the Indonesian Firefox, as I got totally disoriented, no more able to find the terms I’m familiar with. So, after helping — with great difficulty — the id-ID L10N team, I ditched id-ID Firefox and re-installed en-US Firefox )

By: Ami Ganguli

Ami Ganguli — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:49:40 +0000

This is great news. No idea why FF is so popular there (although I’m in Finland, where FF is pretty popular as well), but I do have an idea about how to leverage that popularity.

Offer PC retailers who pre-load Firefox a cut of the revenue from the Google searchbar. If users have to download their own Firefox then the vendor gets nothing, but if users use the pre-loaded Firefox (and I suppose any upgraded version thereof) the the vendor gets a cut.

The beauty of this is that Microsoft could potentially offer the same with IE to counter the offer, but since more than half of the users will download Firefox anyway, they’re leaving money on the table by not preloading Firefox.

In this way you could realistically get Firefox market share up to 75% or 80%. If that’s true, then the breakeven point for Mozilla is offering the retailer 1/3rd of search revenue.