Shanghai - Mozilla, the well known developer of the open source Web browser Firefox, which is the second most widely used web browser only after Microsoft Corporation’s Internet Explorer, has set its target to increase its market share in China by at least twofold this year. China is all set to become the largest Web market in the world.

Gong Li, chief executive of Mozilla Online, said that the California based company is expecting the venture to be hard in a nation where customers largely lack awareness of open source and businesses usually establish their services only on Explorer.

Mozilla Online which is known as “seek wisdom” or “mou zhi,” in Chinese at present has about 4.5 million regular users in China. “There are around 4.5 regular users in china,” said Gong Li, who formerly worked at Microsoft’s MSN unit and at Sun Microsystems Inc.

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