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Mozilla Weaves Its Firefox Cloud
TechWeb —
... by bundling it with an operating system or posting a link on the world's most popular search page. It has to make Firefox so compelling that people want to download it, install it, and use it. To do so, Mozilla has to continue to innovate, and it's doing just that as it tries to transform Firefox from a presentation tool for Web pages into a platform for cloud-based services. On Wednesday, Mozilla Labs engineer Dan Mills offered an update on Weave , a project that aims to allow Firefox users to synchronize data ...
This New Firefox Feature Could Solve the Login and OpenID Problems
ReadWriteWeb —
... The good folks over at Mozilla Labs posted a screencast this morning of an experimental new way to log in to websites while using the Firefox browser. The approach leverages the ...
Experimental Firefox Add-on Weaves OpenID Into the Browser
Webmonkey —
Mozilla wants its flagship browser to keep track of who you are.
The folks at Mozilla Labs, the browser maker’s experimental arm that builds and nurtures new features for Firefox, have revamped Firefox’s nascent Weave add-on by incorporating new functionality that could substantially smooth the process of logging into websites. In a video walk-through of a new, experimental version of the Weave extension (see our previous coverage of Weave) Labs developer Dan Mills demonstrates the add-on’s ability to store and remember any number ...
Opera Unite: One small step for software, one giant leap for the internet
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Mozilla has demoed OpenID built right into the browser and said they see this as the way people will deal with login credentials going forward. Opera Unite hinges on the assumption that you’re using a ...
As Mozilla upgrades the Web, Microsoft must increase its pace
The Open Road —
... because it's the second-most-popular Web browser in the world, the new release is sure to prompt Web designers to create pages tailored to the Web's new language. In other words, Firefox isn't just an upgrade for your computer; it could well prompt a re-engineering of the Web itself.
But it's not just HTML 5. Firefox is innovating in a number of other areas, including "location-aware browsing" on the 'desktop,' while Mozilla's Weave is experimenting with new ways to enrich identity in the browser. In tandem, Mozilla's team is also actively ...
