Gallery: First look at proposed Firefox 4

By Larry Dignan May 10, 2010, 10:17 PM PDT

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Gallery: First look at proposed Firefox 4

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

By Larry Dignan

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

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