Future of Firefox: Interview with Mozilla Chief Innovation Officer

Mozilla Chief Innovation Officer Chris Beard discussed the future development direction of Firefox in an interview yesterday, especially compared with Google's Chrome, we also talked about Mozilla's mobile browser Fennec, the expansion platform, and Mozilla's recent innovative development, such as Weave and Ubiquity.

Firefox VS. Chrome

When talking about how Mozilla plans to maintain Firefox's competitiveness in the modern browser war, Chris Beard talked about Google's browser Chrome launched in last September, and Google and Mozilla's headquarters are only one way apart, there is also a close partnership, but since Chrome joined the browser battlefield, the relationship between the two has become subtle.

Google once claimed that Chrome represents the development direction of browsers because it is better than other existing browsers in managing increasingly complex Web applications. Beard is obviously not satisfied with this statement. He pointed out that Firefox is also striving to enhance its interaction with Web applications so that Web applications can run smoothly, for Google's so-called independent tag process, it means more stable browsing performance. Beard indicates that Firefox is also very stable, especially in the near future, it rarely crashes.

Firefox's future vision

When talking about Mozilla's ideas about the future of Firefox, Chris Beard said that the future vision of Firefox is to help users manage increasingly complex lives, he compared this to "smart proxy" and "trusted assistant". Browsers will be Linked to various services, such as currently very active associated Data Linked Data) and semantic Web communities.

Add-ons is an important part of the current Firefox experience. Beard said many additional components will be further integrated into the core of the browser, in order to save the trouble of searching for various additional components everywhere, mozilla is working to provide more additional components. Users can create their own plug-in "list" and provide it to other users, currently, Firefox has around 8000 plug-ins and will be bundled to users in the next few months.

Beard said that cloud computing will be implemented in many current Firefox functions, such as bookmarks and "smart address Bar" Awesome Bar) in the upcoming improvements to Firefox. in the Internet era, the portability of user experience is very important, so a lot of Firefox's functions and data will enter the cloud computing.

In addition, Firefox will also integrate features of many related products in the future, such as Ubiquity and Weave, which all Mozilla products plan to expand, however, this also includes making them part of the core product Firefox.

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