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Sohu IT news July 15, the Chinese version of Firefox released 2009.7. FireFox hope for such a customized version of the Chinese approach to seek share. Prior to this, it is in the global market share reached 30 percent, but in China, but less than 4%.

Who stole the FireFox site According to iResearch survey, the Chinese browser market monthly statistics degree of effective use of time, IE's share of less than 60%, Maxthon, Tencent TT, Sogou, 360, and Window of the World and other Chinese native browser is 35.6 away together %.

At present, there are 30 remaining native browser. IE development around the core of these products may be accounted for as part of market share, but did not get the respect of technical schools. Mou-Zhi Gong Li CEO, said in front of the Chinese in the FireFox browser, are cottage IE, but IE is not the future of cottage, "they are very poor in terms of innovation, not to master the core technology, it is sad."

Differences between the direction of innovation

China and the browser in the "innovation" in the direction of differences, in the past month has been particularly evident.

Browser still advocating foreign technology-driven: Opera released Opera Unite, this browser-based online collaboration technology to enable each computer can be a server, Opera think that this will be "re-definition of the network"; Microsoft opened a browser Gazelle veil, this line of thought developed in the operating system may replace the browser IE; FireFox has released an official version 3.5 premeditated, through a new Javascript engine, support for the HTML5 and geo-positioning and other major innovations, IE had a few days first hit the market share below 60%; Google announced the release of the Chrome browser based on the operating system. It is not difficult to see that these innovations are focused on core technologies, and to the upper platform (such as operating system) and the forefront of standards (such as HTML5) into.

In contrast, the development of China's browser relatively "low-end." Maxthon few months in hibernation after the 2.5.2 release to improve a lot, but revolved around the application of the basic level of convenience and efficiency; Sogou Education Network to be re-accelerated to speed up the whole network, but the environment from domestic users innovation and technology flow is still being questioned - this is the browser do At the same time, such as the browser window on the world have also released a new version of the same few people are concerned about.

Dong browser developer describes foreign browser differences in innovation: "Innovation is the home of the tactical level, win a victory in a lively, practical; abroad, innovation is the strategic level, and win influence in the product and the grasp of future trends. "

Dong believes that to be respected strategists, but also can be a sniper hero can not compare the merits of different directions. Maxthon won awards abroad, the Dong seems to verify that.

China's innovation: to meet the needs of the most popular

Sniper vision is not a strategist. Xiao-Chuan Wang, senior vice president of Sohu, said: "We are in an era of change in the browser." Maxthon CHEN Ming-jie, president said: "The value of the browser is that it is of strategic significance, we have a lot of the browser ahead of the understanding."

Both long-term vision to lead the efforts of their team in a browser to develop the field of innovation, but they are living in the area of the products have a more pragmatic criteria. Software Park in Hua-Jun, "Home visit" category, the top downloads of the local products Maxthon, Tencent TT, IE companion, and Kirin Feiteng browser. Products they stressed the common features are: compact, based on the IE core, can be synchronized with the IE; occupied by low resource, fast; provide shots, fil