Mozilla Calls, Aurora and Others Answer

Mozilla Labs recently called for participation in their new Concept Series, designed to let anybody collaborate on the design and conception of future Mozilla projects.



“Today we’re calling on industry, higher education and people from around the world to get involved and share their ideas and expertise as we collectively explore and design future directions for the Web.

“You don’t have to be a software engineer to get involved, and you don’t have to program. Everyone is welcome to participate. We’re particularly interested in engaging with designers who have not typically been involved with open source projects. And we’re biasing towards broad participation, not finished implementations.”





So far, Adaptive Path, Mozilla Labs’ Aza Raskin, and designer Wei Zhou have submitted video mockups, showing their visions of the browser’s future. These mockups are compelling in that some promote a type of integration of the browser and OS that we haven’t seen before. Could this be what future cloud computing PCs could look like? The CherryPal PC already uses a modified version of Firefox as its OS, so it certainly seems feasible. Check out the mockups for yourself below!

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Bookmarking and History Concept Video from Wei Zhou on Vimeo.
Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

And you can check out our reviews of other Web browsers too.

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