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Mozilla: The browser as operating system

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

Way back in the mists of time, the rise of Netscape and the Web was seen as putting pressure on Microsoft and its Windows monopoly because of what some called the “browser as operating system.” Much of that early promise — or fear — has yet to be rea ... Continue reading »

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  • jumping on the bandwagon-- this is not a new concept. there are already implementations of this in the real-world facebook mail, Y! shortcuts... they can certainly stand to be improved but lets try to improve these in and take lots of little small steps in doing so rather then building and then crashing the hype cycle around these announcements.
  • Why do I have another operating system in my browser while it actually needs one to run?
    I think that would be better to have a web-centric operating system with applications like Twirl to connect and interact with the net.

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