The leader of the Mozilla Project, which now has more than 350 million people using its Firefox Web browser, is concerned that Internet expansion would be limited based on newer regulations and restrictions.

US-based developer of the open-source browser Firefox Mozilla Corporation has announced the current chief operating officer John Lilly will succeed Mitchell Baker as the new chief executive.

By Noam Cohen Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could - an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world, without the benefit of a giant company like Microsoft to finance it.

The open source Firefox web browser has steadily increased its share of the browser market since it was released in 2004, and also brought in revenue of $52.9m to Mozilla Corp in 2005, according to recently released financial figures.

The World Economic Forum today announced 47 Technology Pioneers for 2007. Mozilla has been selected as one of these Technology Pioneers. The Technology Pioneers were nominated by the world's leading venture capital and technology companies.