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"Mozilla is paying special attention to Indonesia these days because  Firefox  has become the leading browser \u00A0in the country with up to 70  percent market  share. Exactly why, we're unfortunately as baffled as Mozilla is.\r\n\r\nOn Sept 27, the Mozilla Foundation's  chairperson, Mitchell Baker,  and its director of Asia business development, Gen Kanai,\u00A0and  id-mozilla, the Indonesian Mozilla  community, held a public talk at  Blitz Megaplex at Pacific Place in  Jakarta about Mozilla's  market-leading position in Indonesia.\r\n\r\nBack in May, Gen Kanai visited the country to find out how and  why Firefox has become the top browser by far and\u00A0reported\u00A0his findings in his blog.\r\n\r\nWhile he encountered some interesting facts and anecdotes, there  doesn't seem to be any one significant reason as to why Firefox has  achieved its position. There is the strong push by the local Mozilla  community to spread the use of Firefox but to reach more than 70 percent  market share would take more than just that effort.\r\n\r\nAn interesting, though perhaps not surprising, fact that was shared  at the event was that despite being the most popular browser in a  country where English is not a dominant language, 80 percent of Firefox  downloads are the standard English version. Only 16 percent are the  localised Bahasa Indonesia version.\r\n\r\nAmidst the app-centric approach gaining a foothold on the web, Baker  reiterated Mozilla's stance that the browser remains an important piece  of the web and Mozilla is hard at work in developing the best possible  browser experience through its iterations of Firefox, whether it's on  the desktop or on the various mobile platforms it currently supports.\r\n\r\nKanai acknowledged that Firefox has been criticized by many for  becoming slower with each new version and not as lean as it used to be.  He's adamant that version 4 will be better optimized and showed how  Firefox's latest JavaScript engine has outpaced Safari's. While  JavaScript is certainly not the sole indicator, he was using it as an  example of the work that the team has been pushing to create a better  Firefox.\r\n\r\nAt the event, Baker announced that Mozilla will be a partner for the  upcoming Pesta Blogger+ in October in Jakarta and is seeking suggestions  and inputs as to how Mozilla could best participate in the region's  largest annual social media event.\r\n\r\nThere was a question from the audience regarding the recently  published video of the \u00A0Mozilla Seabird phone. Baker responded by saying  that while it's something that came out of Mozilla Labs, it's not a  project that is currently being developed by the Foundation but  certainly would be interesting to see. She noted the open nature of  Mozilla which allows for offshoot projects like these to surface.\r\n\r\nid-mozilla took the chance to announce its new mascot called Kumi (pictured) and distributed papercraft cutouts to those in  attendance.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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