We should stop pretending that there are discrete islands of Firefox that exist;
It's not actually useful to talk about Firefox Desktop and Firefox for phone
because if you look at the array of devices that are out there, that human beings
are buying, that are internet connected, that they want to get Firefox on,
it's a continuum.
We built Firefox and it succeeded, not beyond our dreams because our dreams
were pretty gigantic - certainly right to the edge of them and
I feel pretty good about that, and now hundreds of millions
of people trust us everyday, and I feel pretty good about that
and it's a responsibility that a lot of us take very seriously.
Our job is to get that Firefox means something broader than it's form factor;
that there's a set of things that make Firefox what it is;
and we need to start from that. We need to, to think globally
and then act locally. We need to think about what it is to be Firefox and
then apply it to each particular platform and both halves of that
are important. We shouldn't be designing features in isolation for
desktop or mobile or tablets, we should be thinking about what it is, what it means
across the entire Firefox spectrum and then, just as important,
we should understand how that applies to each form factor.
And this is not easy. Iteration is how we move the web forward day by day, right
like a lot of the time, the way to prove the platform is to fix the crappy little
bugs that get in the way of it being truly excellent.
And we've got to do that, by all means. Because every time we decide
one of those things is important, we do it.
When our products individually are great, we feel pretty good about that
and the PlayStore shows it; but when our products combine into a universe saving force
[audience laughter]
purely miraculous things happen.