Mozilla Firefox earns a tidy profit despite being a free web browser
The official website of the Campus Edition of the Firefox web browsing software application clearly states that only those students who do not have the Firefox web browsing software applications installed in their computers should download the Campus Edition of the Firefox web browser.
For all those students who do have the Firefox web browsing software application installed on their computers, simply downloading the three extensions bundled with the Campus Edition should be sufficient.
Now the developers of the Firefox web browsing software applications have shown admirable foresight in issuing this warning to the end users. Considering the popularity of the Firefox web browsing software applications and considering the enthusiasm with which the end users react to the latest releases of the Firefox web browser, this warning will help a lot.
This warning will ensure that individuals do not the lose one’s bookmarks, web browsing history, passwords, cookies and other private web browsing data due to the download and installation of the Campus Edition of the Firefox web browsing software application.
Considering the fact that students rely a lot more on the Bookmarks features, the Firefox extension feature and the private data stored in the Firefox web browsing software application, the warning that has been posted on the official website is the very useful one.
The developers of the Firefox web browsing software application have long established a reputation of doing things thoroughly. The end users of the Firefox web browsing software application have always been able to rely on the wisdom of the developers without any qualifications whatsoever.
The developers of the Firefox web browsing software application, on their part, have were never treated the end users as a separate class or a separate category. Rather, the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application always behaved as if they too are the end users of the Firefox web browsing software application.
Each and every modification and each and every improvement incorporated into the Firefox web browsing software application is compared with the potential benefit that would accrue to the end users of the Firefox web browsing software application. At no point of time have the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application bothered for their reputation or for the profitability of their venture. As far as the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application are concerned, profit and reputation are secondary to the satisfaction of the end users. It is because of this approach of the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application that the Firefox Corporation earned more than fifty million dollars in profit. The developers of the Firefox web browsing software application have always acted upon the safest rule of doing business- ‘keep the customer happy and the customer shall keep you happy’.
The developers focused on keeping the end users of their web browsing software application happy and they have the enjoyed their patronage in return. That the Firefox web browsing software application has earned a tidy sum of a profit despite being a free web browsing software application is nothing short of a miracle. In today’s world, customer satisfaction is such a rare phenomenon that something that is offered for free too earns a profit simply because it offers complete end user satisfaction. Unfortunately, this approach of the developers of the Mozilla Firefox web browsing software application has never found favor with the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Opera web browsing software application and other web browsers.
It is indeed sad because the world of web browsing software applications would have been a lot more competitive and a lot more enjoyable if all other web browsing software applications had focused on satisfying the end users as the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application have done.
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