Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps 129
An anonymous reader writes "We are hearing that Firefox 4 is now scheduled for a late March release and that the company has some issues fixing the right bugs as more non-blocking than blocking bugs are patched. However, on a positive note, the UI design team has posted some intriguing mockups of partial Firefox 5 interfaces. The big change will be the creation of a site-specific browser, which turns websites into tab apps within Firefox 5. This is the first time we are seeing Mozilla's ideas on how to deal with the app-ification of the Internet and a strategy to keep the web browser relevant."
Re:How about some security? (Score:2, Informative)
Firefox has had plugin sandboxing for a year now (is in FF3.6).
They are working on tab sandboxing concurrent with other development.
Re:How about some security? (Score:4, Informative)
All the other browsers are adopting a decent security model with process separation and enforced sand boxing of plugins and tabs. How about catching up with some decent engineering, instead of another GUI mock up?
They are doing as part of the electrolysyis project [mozilla.org], though I can't see how this fits in with their release roadmap.
Re:How about some security? (Score:2, Informative)
Different teams are working on both; here's a link to Mozilla's one-process-per-tab feature, I believe there are some downloadable builds to try: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis