The first Olympic browser - Sohu's Olympic Firefox browser - was officially released.

In order to better provide Internet content services for the Beijing Olympics, as a sponsor of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Sohu Company has collaborated with Firefox, one of the world's best browsers. Recently, they jointly launched the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser," providing greater convenience for netizens to quickly, easily, and smoothly obtain Olympic information.

On July 3, 2008, at the Sun Hall in Tsinghua Science Park, during the launch of the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser" and the "Firefox Browser Olympic Skin" Creative Party, Dr. Gong Li, CEO of Beijing Mozilla Network Technology Co., Ltd. (mozillaonline.com), and Fang Gang, Vice President of Sohu, jointly unveiled this "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser." Both parties agreed that this was a historically significant collaboration.

The Firefox browser is currently the second-largest internet browser in terms of market share after Microsoft's IE browser. The Firefox browser is operated by the open-source organization Mozilla Foundation and is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of thousands of programmers from the global Mozilla community. This browser stands out in various performance aspects such as tab browsing experience, extensibility, and security due to its "open source" characteristics, thus gaining the favor of many fans. The "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser" is based on the "open source" nature of the Firefox browser and is specifically designed for Chinese netizens as an Olympic-dedicated internet browser on the Firefox 3.0 version.

According to Moji, an engineer at Mozilla Network, the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser" will greatly facilitate Chinese netizens in obtaining Olympic information instantly during the Olympic Games by leveraging Sohu's resource advantages as an Olympic sponsor and the builder of the official Olympic website. First, through the instant Olympic news flash function (status bar instant messages, drop-down bar news list function), users will be among the first to receive the latest updates on Olympic events. Second, users can directly click on the pre-collected "Sohu Olympics" bookmark button to access the Sohu Olympic channel and comprehensively understand Olympic information. Meanwhile, in the right sidebar of the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser," there is an Olympic comprehensive information query function. After the official start of the competition, the medal standings and new schedules will be updated and displayed in the sidebar in real time. Additionally, the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser" provides five Olympic skins themed around the Fuwa mascots, allowing users to choose according to their preferences, fully satisfying personalized needs.

In the Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser, the top feature of the Firefox 3.0 version, the "Smart Address Bar" (Awesome Bar) function, will save the frequently visited Olympic web pages for up to 90 days and perform intelligent searches. As long as you input the two words "Olympics," your frequently visited Olympic web pages will automatically link in the address bar.

Dr. Gong Li, CEO of Mozilla Network, stated that the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser" is a landmark product in the localization efforts of the Firefox browser. It not only provides more adequate product support to improve the quality of Sohu's Olympic internet content services but also allows Chinese netizens to conveniently obtain Olympic information, making the Firefox browser more widely known to Chinese netizens and becoming a powerful tool for entertainment, learning, and information acquisition for Chinese users.

Fang Gang, Vice President of Sohu, expressed that the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser" is a model of complementary strengths between internet content services and product services. Sohu's near-monopoly on Olympic resources and leading reporting capabilities, combined with the leading technology and products of the Firefox browser, will undoubtedly provide higher-quality internet services to a wide range of Chinese netizens.

To fully showcase the personalization and customization characteristics of the Firefox browser, the launch site featured a highly creative "Firefox Browser Olympic Skin" Creative Party segment. During the design process, colorful ink flew everywhere as everyone painted their own "Firefox Browser Olympic Skin" to express blessings and expectations for the Olympics, fully experiencing the joy of open-source creativity and gaining a more direct and genuine understanding of the customization characteristics of the Firefox browser and the "Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser." Mozilla Network also indicated that they would produce corresponding themes from excellent design works for more users to share.

Additionally, it was learned that after the official release of the Sohu Olympic Firefox Browser, users can download it from the Mozilla Network homepage (mozillaonline.com, the only official website of the Firefox browser in China) and the Sohu IT channel.