rajeesh Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Mozilla has a very clear view on its mission, to make it easier for people to experience the web, in all it forms, and to make the web better. Part of that means creating better web technologies and standards and part of it means making Firefox better. One thing that Mozilla wants is to free up users from having to rely on various proprietary platforms for what should be basic web functionality, identity and authentication for one. But Mozilla has been working on "liberating" users in another way, by building social tools into Firefox itself. Mozilla has been experimenting with this for a while, the F1 sharing add-on which later became Firefox Share, for example, but the experimentation period is done, social is now built into Firefox. The first social-related feature will land in Firefox 16 Nightly this week, the ability to share things you stumble upon on the web with friends. In practice, this means the ability to share a link via Twitter, Facebook, Google+,, Gmail or whatever platform you prefer. Or all of them if that's what you want. It's unclear what platforms Firefox will support at first, but the goal is to have as many as possible. Moving further, Mozilla plans to expand the social features in Firefox. The next step is to add support for notifications into the browser, meaning you'll know when new tweets arrive in your feed, when you have new emails, or when someone has commented on your Facebook photos. After that, Mozilla plans to build a unified newsfeed into Firefox as well as a chat feature. Basically, you'll be able to do in Firefox everything you'd do on Twitter, Facebook and so on. That's the goal at least, it's probably going to take a while to get there. All of this is or will be made possible with the Social API, which Mozilla hopes will become the standard way of integrating social website functionality into browsers or, indeed, any other app. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Twitter-Gmail-Will-Be-Built-into-Firefox-279947.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 One-word-response:-Swines!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 They are only doing this so that they can keep up and compete with Chrome and IE. I suppose it doesn't matter what anyone says at this point even if they seem to be on thier first stage of selling out their soul (metaphorically).Everything is merging together it seems but it is doing so in the wrong way I feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrito Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 "Mozilla has a very clear view on its mission" :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonliul Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 FirePig. :blink: :thumbsdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 But I don't understand. Does this mean Firefox will now cook, clean and do the dishes and laundry for me? :dunno:Will it also make love to me at night? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 8, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 8, 2012 After years of Firefox, you guys still think Mozilla will force it down our throat? Mozilla is not Microsoft or Google.I'm sure, all this would be totally optional and can be disabled / customized whenever or however one wants it to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouchysmurf Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 After years of Firefox, you guys still think Mozilla will force it down our throat? Mozilla is not Microsoft or Google. I'm sure, all this would be totally optional and can be disabled / customized whenever or however one wants it to be. I hope so. I do NOT allow facebook crap on my system. IMO, it is nothing more than a virus that invades your privacy. Firefox is already loaded with too much junk...why can't they just be the nice, clean, fast browser that they use to be? They have already forced changes down my throat, so to me this is more of the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 But I don't understand. Does this mean Firefox will now cook, clean and do the dishes and laundry for me? :dunno: Will it also make love to me at night? :P :rofl: :lmao: :lol: Firefox will become a Social Browser. Admit it guys, nowadays we have no more private life, everything is social, even sex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 I hope so. I do NOT allow facebook crap on my system. IMO, it is nothing more than a virus that invades your privacy. Hallelujah! Somebody had to say it. Thank you : :notworthy: :notworthy: ......everything is social, even sex. Umm... I quite like the idea of social sex. Hmm.. kinky :P :hehe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 8, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 8, 2012 Okay. I've gone through the Mozilla wiki page about this social thingy. Though it mentions very less about disabling it, I can see one specific line that should ease the tension: UR and UX work to test and design the experience for discovery and enabling social features, each of the 4 social touch points, disabling the social feature, and switching between social providers. So yea, what I mentioned above should be the case. It can be disabled it seems. Well, atleast the team is going to test the disabling part, in addition to just adding it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastershake Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 thank god.... facebook is a disease and needs a cure... :nuke: ill for sure have to find another way to browse if they do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 The thing is, we can bash it as much as we want but the sooner we realize that we're in the minority, the better it is for everybody.A social browser on the lines of RockMelt maybe annoying to most of us who actually have a real life (and not just a virtual one), but for millions, it will make life easier 'cuz all they do is shift between FB, Youtube, Twitter etc. ;)Personally, I think even if Firefox don't implement disabling the feature natively (which they will by all accounts), Palemoon or some other FF derivative may do it anyways. Maybe we'll get an extension that will do it for us. So we'll continue to use our fav browser without having to deal with the annoyance. So fret not :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 9, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 9, 2012 @calguyhunk: Couldn't agree more.Plus there's a possibility that other browsers will adapt this particular project too (officially). I don't just want google or someone like them to come, improve the thing from Mozilla and then put their nose ahead and say that "we did it better". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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