Mozilla Labs Scopes Out the Future of the Web

Recent activity from Mozilla Labs has been focused on the future of the browser--and a world in which the browser is pretty much the operating system. Other browser vendors--including Microsoft, Opera and Google--are hot on its heels.

Lots of people talk about the future of the Web—about what types of applications and services we will see in the coming years. But what about the browser itself? How will future browsers interact with sites and applications? Will we even have browsers as we know them today, or will everyone use browser-like single-purpose applications to access different areas of the Web?

One company very concerned with the answers to these questions is Mozilla. After all, the browser is pretty much the only product the organization has.

The unit of Mozilla whose mission is to look toward the future is Mozilla Labs. This is where many of the features and capabilities currently found in the Firefox browser first make their appearance, as do other, more stand-alone applications such as Prism, which was recently released in beta.

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of news and activity coming out of Mozilla Labs. And all of this activity has been focused on the future of the browser.

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