Mozilla Seeks Ideas to Shape Web's Future
Posted 08/06/08 at 07:05:19 PM | by Pulkit Chandna
Mozilla has issued an open invitation to all people with a vibrant imagination, regardless of their calling, to posit ideas that could determine the future of Firefox and the web. It is especially interested in bringing aboard designers that haven’t worked on open source projects hitherto. Mozilla Labs’ website is asking for people to turn in their ideas that can be “a sentence, paragraph, or even bullet-points kick-start the process.” If Mozilla sights real potential in the idea it will turn them into reality. The website also flaunts a number of exciting browser concept videos. If you have any fascinating ideas, feel free to deposit them in the comments section.

how is this for creative?
Submitted by N25PHILLY on Thu, 2008-08-07 14:48
A way to shut off the "awesome bar" with one click
See, here's my fear...
Submitted by Cache on Wed, 2008-08-06 19:47
We're going to end up with 16.7 million themes that fit each and every possible color. Seriously. That and nothing else.
However, hoping for the best, what about getting rid of the traditional browser bars altogether? Give me a more visceral interface similar to the controls on the side for Google Earth only used to navigate the web instead of sorority houses at colleges worldwide? Something where the web is explored by a real push through an environment instead of www's and taskbars all over the place.
One idea that I think would be interesting would be a means of assigning tags to pictures. I spend (far too many) time on some image boards and would like to retain the tags on those pics. A means to download new tags to those same pictures would save me a lot of hassle than trying to set things up in folders all over the place.
An idea for the browser is
Submitted by pellier on Wed, 2008-08-06 18:31
An idea for the browser is for after the page loads it loads the pages that are linked to in the webpage so as you move your cursor over a link a popupwill occur(not in a differnet window, like a flashbased one)that has a preview of the linked page.
Cache
Submitted by vistageek on Wed, 2008-08-06 19:12
with hard drives being so big now and ram so cheap, I think it would be cool if it would cache the pages liked to it so that they would load instantly. THAT would be cool. It would have to cache all of it, just start working on the other pages.
You're in luck! There's
Submitted by Bizarre on Wed, 2008-08-06 19:12
You're in luck! There's already a firefox extension that does that, called Cooliris Previews.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207
For all, the cooleris thing
Submitted by vistageek on Wed, 2008-08-06 19:13
For all, the cooleris thing is for the above comment.









