Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers
With the official launch of Google's Chrome Web Store fast approaching, Mozilla today unveiled what they're calling 'Open Web Apps'. Basically, this takes the idea behind Chrome's Web Store and makes it available for all desktop and mobile 'modern browsers'. Plus, it adds the word 'open' in the name, which probably guarantees it will receive bonus points from the open source community. Open Web Apps will run in all supported browsers (Firefox 3.6 and later, Firefox for mobile, Internet Explorer 8, Chrome 6, Safari 5, Opera 10 and WebKit mobile), but will allow each browser to compete on "app presentation, organization and management user interfaces". Full story...