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Gary Kovacs at the Dublin Web Summit yesterday. WebSummits via Flickr/Creative Commons

Mozilla CEO says Google is a "frenemy"

Gary Kovacs says that while Mozilla, which created Firefox, gets most of its revenue from Google, the two companies are still eyeing each other carefully.

THE CEO OF Mozilla, which runs not-for-profit internet browser Firefox, has said that his company and Google are ‘frenemies’.

Gary Kovacs confirmed that a major part of Mozilla’s revenue comes from a deal with Google, whose browser is Chrome. Google pays to have ‘Google search’ the default search engine in the Firefox search bar. Kovacs wouldn’t specify how much the deal was worth but didn’t protest when the figure of $300m a year was put to him at the Dublin Web Summit yesterday.

He said that every time Google achieves a financial transaction through a referral from Firefox, Mozilla gets a commission. Google, however, along with Internet Explorer, are the major rival to Firefox in the browser business. Kovacs conceded:

We are in a frenemy situation with Google.

He denied that it was dangerous to rely on an economic model where their rival was supplying much of their income.

“It would be dangerous if there wasn’t a value in what we are doing,” he said.

The Mozilla Manifesto declares that it aims to promote “openness, innovation and opportunity” to make the internet a community project working for the public good.

Kovacs said that the organisation was now investing in new projects that reflect people’s use of the internet moving from desktop devices to mobile. “The web is under threat,” he says as certain companies begin to lock down the operating systems (OS) people use on their phones.

We are being asked where we want to live our online lives.

Mozilla is launching its own OS, first in South America and some Eastern European countries, with a view to keeping the web “unlocked” on mobile phones. It will be launched first in Brazil in the first half of next year but won’t be in Western Europe for some time. Mozilla is also partnering with some hardware companies and says that their aim is to continue to promote a “pure HTML environment so anyone can participate”.

HTML, said Kovacs, is the open-source “language of the web” and he feels that Mozilla’s push for HTML5 compliance has forced the hand of their competitors. He also said he didn’t believe that either Chrome or Firefox was “winning” the competition in browser choice but that they were neck-and-neck.

“Chrome doesn’t have to lose for us to win, as long as we retain share enough of the market to continue to have influence,” he said.

Kovacs also revealed that Mozilla will build a social brower – “we see integration with what we call the social API” – and claimed they will be “leading the way with another big company”, launching in beta form in the next two days.

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    Mute Andrew Telford
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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:13 AM

    Ive hired a few people in my time… My two weirdest were a 14 pager that included a copy of the cert you got for ‘graduating’ primary school and another that had a whole list of scores, titles and achievements from world of Warcraft/dungeons and dragons type games

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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:27 AM

    My latest CV addition, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:16 PM

    I once received a CV which had listed in the work experience section: ‘Worked as a floor in a nightclub’

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    Oct 14th 2012, 3:20 PM

    yeah… everyone walked all over him!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:03 PM

    My dad once got a CV in the post, included with it were two sheets of toilet paper with the words “I’m willing to start at the bottom” scrawled across them.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:15 PM

    EX-L-ent. I’ll have to remember that one !

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    Mute Padraig Stapleton
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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:35 AM

    Had to design the odd CV in a printers. Once had a girl come in and asked could she put her photo on the front page. Bad enough. But then she wanted same picture blown up as a watermark on each page! Horrific.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:09 PM

    LOL… I hope shes was at least good looking

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:56 PM

    Photos on CV’s are an extremely common occurrence in continental Europe. A potential employer here in holland actually complained to me about the fact that there wasn’t a picture in mine.

    Most random thing I ever saw was an old friend of mine who listed breathing as his only talent. You can guess how many job offers that earned.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:50 PM

    When Spanish people send cv’s in there is almost always a picture. I guess it’s different habit per country.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:51 AM

    Got a CV from an Eastern European a few years back and under his interests it said – cumputer, socialising and I have a Gun !!!!!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:50 PM

    Hire me or else

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    Oct 14th 2012, 4:24 PM

    I’m laughing more about his “cumputer”.

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    Mute Eoin Faz
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    Oct 15th 2012, 1:17 AM

    Similar. I’ve seen qualified chainsaw handler on a couple of CVs applying for office work! Agh!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:39 AM

    Anyone who puts “socialising” on their CV is pretty much saying they enjoy a good drink.

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    Mute Fiachra Maolmordha Ó Raghallaigh
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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:59 AM

    At school we were told to replace it with “networking”. Sounds more sophisticated, and usually means the same thing (in Ireland anyway)!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:29 PM

    Or they never had a job before and it’s all they know

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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:45 AM

    Got a cv into my workplace before and person had “birthplace: The Coombe” written on it… Still trying to work out how it’s relevant!!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:49 PM

    In my last job I got a lot of cvs with email addresses like galwayslut69@blah.com Get a separate address for work girls!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:08 PM

    My email is the best. EYERISH

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:11 PM

    Saw a devirginiser69 email once. It’s not just girls.

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    Mute Michael Russell
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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:23 PM

    We got a CV with an email
    Like that before. The entire CV was typed in pink, and sprayed with glitter, and perfume. Unreal

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:30 PM

    We got a cv in work from a far eastern guy whos only hobby was ” I like to smile”

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    Oct 14th 2012, 3:55 PM

    Awwwwww. That’s nice.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:29 PM

    Also once saw a CV typed up… in Comic Sans. Words fail me.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:34 PM

    Oh that’s nothing… That regularly happens. I used to get requests from an assistant secretarial officer in a combo of blue, pink and purple comic sans.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:20 PM

    Another was from a gent who was in his late fifties. His CV was 7 pages long in excel format listing every job he had since the seventies. Every job was short term (from a couple of days to one month). A list of over 200 jobs
    that he had held.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:15 PM

    I once got a cv in with one interesting hobby.. hand milking cows

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    Oct 14th 2012, 11:07 AM

    Did the MS Word thing. And the “socialising” thing.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:29 PM

    I also like to freewheel downhill, but only after pedaling uphill furiously. (I don’t want to appear lazy!)

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:39 PM

    Not on my CV but on others…

    I used to love seeing CVs in the 90s and the 00s that proclaimed that they had a provisional driving license. I used to laugh to myself that this was basically saying they could fill in a form.

    My other favourite was some guy who had Father’s occupation: Company Director; Mother’s occupation: Homemaker. Why is that relevant?

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:07 PM

    maybe not so much a weird thing on my CV but got asked to describe a difficult situation I had when I worked in the bookies in an interview for a graduate office job, so i told them (in a very straight forward run of the mill tone) about a guy who lost a bet and came back threw a giant cement block (not brick, was massive thing dug out of the ground from a nearby building site) at us twice (luckily we had a bullet priof screen thar barely scratched) and how we called the gards and they did nothing (said guy drinking accross the way in the pub all day) and then later on when i came back from my dinner break the other 2 were shaking as he’d been back with a gun (fake in the end but they didnt know that!). so finished up with, yeah difficult situation only way we could resolve it was by giving the gards a statement and letting them do the rest

    The 2 interviewers had no idea how to react and awkwardly went ok then asked me about a difficult situation I had in a different job! got the job anyway!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:08 PM

    Achievements:

    climbed carrantuohill once as a scout

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    Oct 14th 2012, 5:44 PM

    A girl in college with me had a 5-page CV. She’d never had a job. First page had ‘Private and Confidential’. Only other item I recall was ‘Sixer in the Brownies’.
    Think she got a job in FF head office.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 12:18 PM

    I put ‘Administration’ in my skills section. Its not really a skill is it.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 3:54 PM

    I had a chap give me a pretty cringey three pager with professional DJ and producer and such like. The third page was him on a boat in Thailand. Wearing a straw pork pie hat. Shirtless.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 6:38 PM

    Cash Escort is my current role. Really need to rephrase that.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 1:15 PM

    I included writing plot for a live action roleplaying game on my cv. Teamwork, meeting deadlines, writing succinct and memorable briefs for people. Totes relevant skills.

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    Oct 14th 2012, 2:42 PM

    Thumb dwn 4 de use of de word totes.
    Soz luv, u knw hw it is. Innit.

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    Mute Declan Mannix
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    Oct 14th 2012, 4:57 PM

    a Yank friend of mine, 50, sent me his cv to pass on. very qualified guy. his achievements listed when from most recent all the way back too. ……….. wait for it…………………………………………. wait………………………………………… THE FAST PAPER ROUND IN BURLINGAME, SAN FRANCISCO.

    I asked him, ‘you do realize your are a fifty year old man.. right. ?????????

    Americans…. eh.?

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    Oct 14th 2012, 4:58 PM

    FASTEST

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    Oct 14th 2012, 4:34 PM

    I once interviewed a copoclephologist!!

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    Oct 14th 2012, 3:19 PM

    astronaut cowboy! i rented the spacesuit and hat for the photo.

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