Mike Belzner, vice president of engineering at Firefox, delivered a Webcast outlining plans for Firefox 4. The message boils down to three words: Performance, power and personalization. Firefox needs to be fast, tidy and support new technologies such as 64-bit, Direct2D on Windows and other items.
For more, read Larry Dignan’s blog. Here are some highlights – all are noted with a “things may change tag.”
Credit: Mozilla
Security
Settings
Security
Risks and gaps for users.
Firefox reasearch milestones
Firefox 4 themes
Mozilla promises simple, cleaner, faster navigation.
Every Firefox 4.0 sample page had this graphic attached.
Plan for developers
Platform plan
Platform plan
Platform plan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief at Celonis. He was most recently Vice President, Editorial and Editor in Chief at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, and The New York Times. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.
