Mozilla gets social with Firefox

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Mozilla gets social with Firefox

by Emily Price Apr 4th 2007

Mozilla labs is talking about plans to incorporate social networking into Firefox with The Coop. The idea behind The Coop is to allow users to keep track of their friends online. Users will be able to see their friends faces and by clicking on a friends picture get a list of their recently added Flikr photos, tagged websites, blog posts, favorite YouTube videos etc. Users can share items with friends by simply dragging an item onto a friends photo. When you receive something sent from a friend that friends face will glow to let you know.

Mozilla has a wiki up with some mockups of what The Coop might look like. The site mentions a downloadable prototype but at last check it was unavailable. They're still working on the code and encourage feedback on the design and code in their forums, if you're interested give it a look see.

Tags: Mozilla, social network, social web browser, SocialNetwork, SocialWebBrowser

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tom said 1:46PM on 4-04-2007

April Fools!

Julian Bond said 3:14PM on 4-04-2007

Hope they bolt in Twitter as well.

Julian Bond said 3:40PM on 4-04-2007

Hope they bolt in Twitter as well.

b.art said 5:23PM on 4-04-2007

why would Firefox want to go head to head with the FF based Flock?

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