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I heard a few questions yesterday about the future of Firefox and its product goals, differentiating factors, and its positioning against Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. I’ve been following the Firefox process intermittently so I’ll outline some of what I know in an attempt to spark community involvement and feedback on behalf of Mozilla and the Firefox team.

The Firefox planners is divided into a few different functions such as planning, development, user interface, test, internationalization, and quality assurance, just to name a few. The product planners are currently engaging the community to determine what should be the differentiating factors of Firefox over the long-term (version 4, 5, 6, etc.). What is Firefox’s role as a browser? What is its role as an application enabler, powering application features through HTML rendering, XUL, or a general handler of all things HTTP. You can follow that thread on the mozilla.dev.planning mailing list if you’re interested. Firefox in the next 9 months