Mozilla China
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | March 4, 2005 |
| Founder | Microsoft |
| Defunct | July 27, 2025 |
| Headquarters | , China |
| Products | Firefox China |
| Parent | Mozilla[1] |
| Website | www |
Beijing Mozilla Online Ltd. (Chinese: 北京谋智网络技术有限公司), also called Mozilla China (Chinese: 谋智中国) was a limited company to help promote and deploy Mozilla products in mainland China.[2][3]
History
Mozilla China was founded on March 4, 2005 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation.[1]
The company announced its shutdown in July 2025[4] as official Mozilla services, including the website and community, would stop operating on 24 September 2025.
Meanwhile, the mainland Chinese version of the Firefox browser would remain usable.
Organisation
Similar to the Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla China is a for-profit company funded and created by a non-profit organization (Mozilla Foundation).[5]
Mozilla China was co-chaired by Dr. Li Gong of Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) and Mingshu Li of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), both of whom sat on the steering committee with Mitchell Baker, then president of the Mozilla Foundation.
Functions
Mozilla China built a Chinese version of the Mozilla web site, provides technical and architectural direction for Mozilla development in China, organises and operates discussion forums, and further develops Mozilla source code in China.
Mozilla China was in charge of developing and maintaining a localised Firefox browser for mainland China.
Many modifications were made to accommodate mainland Chinese users' experience (e.g. supporting website login for WeChat), but some of them were privacy-concerned,[6][7] including limitations on installing ad blocking extensions.[8]
References
- ^ a b "全新的 Firefox 火狐浏览器 — 职业机会". Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ Mozilla Foundation expands with launch of Mozilla China, Mar 4 2005
- ^ Ever More Global, April 26th, 2007
- ^ Coco Feng (2025-07-18). "Firefox web browser prepares to close China entity amid competition from Chrome, Safari". South China Morning Post. Guangdong. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "谋智宫力：竞争不是拳击赛 与谷歌合作是双赢". 腾讯科技. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
我们为什么做这件事情？我们到底是一个什么样的公司？大家可能听说过火狐是开源，基金会之类的，我想稍微解释一下，我们公司是一个不太典型的公司，我在招人的时候，或者跟客户、合作伙伴解释时，解释不太清楚，我们公司属于一个非盈利的慈善事业机构的基金会出资办的商业性公司。
- ^ "国内特供版软件防不胜防？还有这些靠谱的选择". 太平洋电脑网. 2020-07-06. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "谋智中国被发现"do some evil" - OSCHINA". OSCHINA. 2013-11-24. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ^ "Firefox 屏蔽中国大陆用户安装广告拦截扩展 - OSCHINA". OSCHINA. 2022-03-21. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
External links
- Official website (in Chinese)