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Here's a demo of video playback in combination with JavaScript manipulating the video's canvas in Firefox 3.5 beta. The demo page uses the video tag to embed the video in the page, so if you view it in Firefox 3.5 you can just play it. If not, you'll have to download the demo video separately.

That is nothing. Like everyone else said, you can do everything except the music control without HTML5 (though 5 might make it easier).

If you want to see what HTML5 can do, look at this:
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/web-demo.xhtml

and this:
http://standblog.org/blog/post/2009/04/15/Making-video-a-first-class-citizen-of-the-Web

Admittedly, these are not exactly real-world use cases, but they do show the potential.

I think HTML5, CSS3, et al have it covered:

http://standblog.org/blog/post/2009/04/15/Making-video-a-first-class-citizen-of-the-Web

http://www.w3.org/2009/03/web-demo.xhtml

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/

Not true. I got the impression it was more of pragmatic decision: FF is the application that is making the big impact on the web. With its ~15% and growing market share, it is causing web designers to write standards-compliant sites. This in turn makes life easier for Opera, Safari/KHTML, and any other standards-compliant browser without the market share to get designers to care if their sites are compatible with it. The success of Firefox allows Mozilla to effectively push for new web standards and so enable the next generation of web applications (like the new <video> tag). Remember that MS only restarted work on IE because it started losing market share, largely to FF. It only makes sense for an organization to focus its resources on where they make the most difference.

FF has generated lots of excitement from users and developers, resulting in lots of extensions and web apps being written for it; the same hasn't happened with Thunderbird (TB). It could be that TB, as it exists now, isn't the right solution for managing email. The new TB org is talking about creating a unified framework for all communication, managing IM with email with social networking sites together. That might be a better approach.

Also, the work on TB was largely orthogonal to work on FF, upon which the Mozilla Corp. had come to focus on, so it made sense spin it off into a separate organization; this gives TB more independence and control over itself. I don't know why this wasn't mentioned more, but Mozilla gave the new TB organization $3 million in seed money--more than the Mozilla Foundation itself started out with--and says it may give more later if the organization can't find alternative revenue sources.

See this FAQ for more info on the split. For more information on what is actually going on in the new mail organization, read this blog post. Basically, they are now trying to hire developers and figure out the best plan to move ahead.

A while ago, people also got angry at Mozilla for no longer supporting the App Suite. Well, Suite supporters continued work on it through their own community project called SeaMonkey (with the Mozilla Corp. still hosting the project). They've since completed significant code rewrites that many thought would be impossible, and are getting ready for an ambitious v2.0 release. The Suite is being better taken care of than before, and that's without any funding.

Google had no say in the matter. See this blog post for a debunking of a CNET article similar to the one mentioned by the poster. If Google were to stop supporting FF, I imagine Mozilla could just as easily make a similar deal with another search engine. Even if Mozilla lost all revenue sources, its reserves of $70 million (at the end of 2006) means it could operate as is for a while; that gives it independence. With the millions likely to keep coming in for some time to come, I wonder if they might set up some kind of endowment.

Thunderbird is not dead, and David and Scott are leaving Mozilla, but retaining their roles as module owners of Thunderbird.

http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2007/10/08/thunderbird-in-crisis-no

http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/10/08/The-future-of-Thunderbird

I have met with the Xiti team a few months ago to get a better understanding of what they measure. Basically, they have what they call markers (actually small images) on literally millions of Websites, mostly in Western Europe. This means they get billions of hits every month, and then analyse which browser engine were used to display these images.

Your data is about 6-month old. Firefox usage worldwide seems to be now about 15%, over 20% in Europe and Australia, and still growing.

Linux definitely exists outside of server rooms, however perhaps not in corporate America.

Rather, you can see the German ad at http://standblog.org/blog/2004/12/02/93113861-full -page-ad-in-german