Firefox 4

March 28th, 2008

Do you even have Firefox 3 yet? I…well…checks version…2.0.something. Nope. Beta is available in that link.

So…we are already talking about Firefox 4. It won’t even be released this year, but why not get some early scoop on it? In an interview with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla, Rafe Needleman discusses some of the features coming in Firefox 4. It definitely isn’t on a Zylorin diet.

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.