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Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-prefer-diet-tab dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We are hearing that Firefox 4 is now scheduled for a late March release and that the company has some issues fixing the right bugs as more non-blocking than blocking bugs are patched. However, on a positive note, the UI design team has posted some intriguing mockups of partial Firefox 5 interfaces. The big change will be the creation of a site-specific browser, which turns websites into tab apps within Firefox 5. This is the first time we are seeing Mozilla's ideas on how to deal with the app-ification of the Internet and a strategy to keep the web browser relevant."

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  1. Browser vs OS by Fri13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please, stop adding features to the browser what makes it more and more like a OS. (Firefox without a microkernel, or Firefox as monolithic OS without monolithic architecture).

    1. Re:Browser vs OS by tokul · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please, stop adding features to the browser what makes it more and more like a OS

      We already have emacs for that.

  2. App-ification by Stan+Vassilev · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's no "app-ification of the web", there's just a rush to cash in on the "app" and "appstore" buzzwords that Apple pushed from solely developer lingo into the mainstream.

    Those are bookmarks. But with their secondary menus and new, more confusing ways to do the same old stuff they try to blur boundaries between web and apps. Boundaries, which people need, as a sandboxed browser site and an app is not the same thing by a long shot.

    In the end, this will only push users away and to whoever offers the simplest experience.

  3. How about some security? by thsths · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the other browsers are adopting a decent security model with process separation and enforced sand boxing of plugins and tabs. How about catching up with some decent engineering, instead of another GUI mock up?

    1. Re:How about some security? by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Are they ever going to make the entire browser not lock up when one tab is doing something that requires starting Flash or gets stuck downloading data from a server?

      I'd much rather they fix that than add 'apps' to the browser.

  4. Re:Positivism by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    > It's innovation, guys.

    "Innovation" is not a synonym for "gimmick".

    > ...this feature...

    "Feature", unfortunately, is.

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