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Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation - Browsers Heading Apart Again
Published January 12th, 2007 in All Categories, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed "Gran Paradiso". The target 
release date is sometime in the third quarter this year and it hopes to release a major version of Firefox every year. While Firefox is still aiming for a broad mainstream audience, Mozilla recognizes that its strengths for normal users are its extensions and customization. It notes on the wiki that "Microsoft will continue to establish deeper ties from IE7/Vista to live.com & MSN" and even that other "web service providers" may introduce their own browsers (Yahoo? Amazon?). So Firefox is aiming to be the best general Web browser - e.g. it wants to be faster for AJAX apps.
Among the mandatory requirements listed for FF3 are improving the add-on experience, providing "an extensible bookmarks back-end platform", adding more support for web services "to act as content handlers" - all of which show that Firefox wants to be an independent information broker rather than a simple HTML renderer in its next version. Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation - Browsers Heading Apart Again
