Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons - R. Buckminster Fuller
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Mozilla unveils Firefox Web Apps
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OUTFIT Mozilla has unveiled the first developer release of its web applications project.
Mozilla is designing its Web Apps so that applications can run on Firefox browsers on desktops, tablets and smartphones. The move follows a similar one by Google through its Chrome Web Store.
However unlike Google's Chrome app store, Mozilla has gone a step further allowing Chrome users to run its Web Apps through the release of a plug-in. It also allows developers to create their own app stores or publish directly to users.
Applications can be built using HTML5 and Javascript, with Mozilla releasing various application programmable interfaces to get developers started.
Mozilla says that in the coming weeks it will produce a "deeply integrated in-browser experience" for the location and installation of Web Apps. Software to allow synchronisation of applications with mobile devices and provide native web browser and OS integration will also be developed.
Although it's not ready for prime time, Mozilla's Web Apps effort comes at a time when it is facing significant competition from Google's Chrome. With Mozilla recently releasing its final beta of Firefox 4, it's not certain whether Web Apps will make it into the first Firefox 4 production release.
Mozilla's attempt at creating a web browser application store doesn't sound like it's too far off the mark, however its biggest problem is that, unlike Chrome, Firefox isn't the default web browser on Android smartphones.
Until Mozilla figures out an aggressive strategy to get its web browser into the hands of Android smartphone users, apps developers might find developing for Chrome more profitable. µ
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If you've been closely following the "process" of this FF4, in the sence of installing nightlies day after day, you understand that this will Mozzila's "Millenium" version, and could very well be the end for Mozilla. It's no more or less than awful.
@W.-
Non-profit companies make money; there's no requirement against that. Many sell stuff that would be in 'stores'. Money made by non-profits just isn't distributed to shareholders-- it's spent on improvements and operating expenses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization
Mozilla cannot and should not put up any store, they are non-profit and a requirement of that is that you can't make.. yep you guessed it.
And they are very dedicated to open source and have shown that in action, so I don't think (and do hope) they will get into selling stuff that should be free to people .
But to put up a repository is another thing of course.
ActiveX returns!
Only time that I have seen Firefox using over 300MB is before the plugin isolation came into force. And that was all Flash because of Facebook games (not me playing them.)
Most of the time I look at the firefox process and see <200mb re not already running a good adblocking, ghosting and flash cookie blocking/clearing program I would suggest that you do so and that you check your memory usaged afterwards.
improve on their memory management and garbage collection before working on being an app base. Right now I can reach easily 800MB mem consumption after a day of browsing with Firefox, and when killing all tabs except the last one, showing a basic static page, it is still 800MB. Need to kill the browser at least once a day to clear memory.
Now on top of this hog they want to run apps?!
If the feature isn't in the latest and last beta release of Firefox 4.0, surely it can't be in the general issued version. They don't know that it won't set your trousers on fire or something. It -must- be beta released first.