Mozilla engineers visit Indonesia to ‘better cater to user needs

Six engineers from San-Francisco-based tech group Mozilla, the developers of the Firefox browser, will meet Indonesian users at the Firefox 4 Launch Party, which will be held in six cities from April 29 to May 7.Viking Karwur, the manager of Mozilla Indonesia Community, said this delegation was twice as large as the delegation to the previous launch party.

The six visiting engineers are director of Asia business development Gen Kanai, Javascript engine engineer Luke Wagner, David Anderson and David Mandalin, Firefox release manager Christian Legnitto and Macintosh developer for Firefox Joshua Aas.
Kanai said the engineers came to be better acquainted with the needs of Indonesian Mozilla users.
“We hope that we will return bringing the results of our study. The study might influence the decision-making process of feature development so that we could fulfill the needs of users,” he was reported as saying by news portal kompas.com.
He added that Mozilla was aiming to develop a version Firefox that could address issues faced by nations with slow Internet connections such as Indonesia.
Indonesia is currently one of the countries with the highest rates of Firefox penetration, with an alleged 80 percent of Internet users browsing the Internet using Firefox.
The Firefox Launch Party has been held in Yogyakarta and Jakarta in the past two days. The party will then move to Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar and Bali from May 1 to 7.