Webware spoke with Mozilla vice president Chris Beard, who mentioned
two
specific new concepts for Firefox 4 that will evolve the online experience and
add greater integration with content stored on computer hard drives.One of
the new features is called "Prism," a next-gen software technology that would
allow users to run Web-based content offline. For example, users would be able
to visit websites and still access non-dynamic content even when they don't have
an active Internet connection. The other big feature already unveiled for
Firefox 4 is called "Weave." This is an option that would basically create a set
of online preferences and settings that is stored for each user instead of each
computer. In other words, users would be able to bring up their bookmarks, font
settings and privacy preferences no matter which computer they use. This feature
is set to be in its first stages in Firefox 3, but Firefox 4 will reportedly
allow users to access these profiles on other browsers as well.
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