Sneak Peak at New Features of Firefox 4

Mozilla Firefox is a widely, known and accepted name on the internet. Arguably one of the most reliable and fastest browsers available, it is also one of the most popular. Firefox achieved record status for most downloads in a single day, recorded in the Guinness Records. Firefox success is attributed to continuous improvement by the large group of developers available to it, attributed to Firefox because of it being an open source project. Mozilla Firefox 4 features some options that we never imagined could be possible, and it keeps the pace and high-standards that Mozilla has set the bar for.

1. Prism

Browsers have not evolved too differently since Internet Explorer was released. The continuously growing use of the internet has remained conflicted with desktop applications since the user could not synchronize the two. With browsers right now, one most open the browser, go to your e-mail's site, log in, then you are finally able to read your mail. Imagine being able to have a desktop icon that you could click on and you would be able to open your mail directly. Imagine being able to use Google calendars right on your desktop.

Prism is the answer. Prism will bridge the internet and you're desktop onto a common platform.

2. Weave

Weave is another great feature that will act in bridging your browsing experience no matter where you go. Think of the many times where you may have found a website at school or at the office, but could not for the life of you remember what that website was once you got home. Rather than writing down each new bookmark between each computer, the Weave feature of Firefox 4 will allow users to synchronize browser features. Weave will synchronize passwords, home pages, bookmarks etc. to any computer you use, no matter if you are in your car, home, or office.

3. Geode

Geode is another great concept from Mozilla. In Firefox 3.1 a similar feature called Geolocation is available, but Geode will be a much more improved version of this. Geode will automatically track its user's location through Wi-Fi, GPS, or manual entry and then offers you information based on your location.

For example, suppose you are in a new town and would like to watch a movie. Fire up Firefox, go to Geode, and it will tell you where and how to get to a great movie. In order to do this, Mozilla plans on supporting W3C Geolocation Specification. This will give websites the ability to request your current location. Of course it will only give this information with your permission. You will be able to give certain levels of permission, for example you can choose to only give the city you are in rather than your exact location.