Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser

[surferdude]

This post has been corrected from the original: Mozilla has no plan to ship Firefox 4 this year; references to that effect have been removed.

After the product road map roundtable I live-blogged Wednesday, I had a talk with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla. Beard is working on the things you won't see in Firefox 3, but will, if he has his way, surface in Firefox 4.

Beard's philosophy is this: The browser needs to evolve. Beard believes the browser concept hasn't fundamentally changed in 10 years. It's still an isolated piece of software, he says. Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services. So extended, the browser becomes an even more powerful and pervasive platform for all kinds of applications. http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9904867-2.html?tag=nefd.only

[L e s]

This post has been corrected from the original: Mozilla has no plan to ship Firefox 4 this year; references to that effect have been removed.

After the product road map roundtable I live-blogged Wednesday, I had a talk with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla. Beard is working on the things you won't see in Firefox 3, but will, if he has his way, surface in Firefox 4.

Beard's philosophy is this: The browser needs to evolve. Beard believes the browser concept hasn't fundamentally changed in 10 years. It's still an isolated piece of software, he says. Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services. So extended, the browser becomes an even more powerful and pervasive platform for all kinds of applications. http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9904867-2.html?tag=nefd.only



Seems like it's getting more like IE every year :cjlol:

[boilerman]

Something that will do all things for all men will likely satisfy few.

Seems that some people have a great desire to complicate simple things. I prefer simple things for simpletons. I even experimented with the OffByOne browser.

[jbs3645]

I tried and used that one for awhile. Wasn't bad. I like Firefox better than the other offerings at this point but I think they are getting to full of themselves with their recent success. When I first switched to Firefox (Phoenix) it was to get away from huge bloated browser that claimed to do all. Seems like they are getting to where they got away from. Les has a good point as does boilerman.

Anybody have anything better? I have been trying a lot and can't find anything.

john

[randiroo76073]

A bit like using Moz suite, or Konqueror, no thanks. KISS, with addons for those that want them.