{"id":61789,"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2010\/05\/10\/firefox-4-vision-fast-powerful-and-empowering\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:30:17","slug":"firefox-4-vision-fast-powerful-and-empowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/firefox-4-vision-fast-powerful-and-empowering\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 4 Vision: fast, powerful, and empowering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: On May 10, Mike Beltzner presented the vision for Firefox 4 (the next major release of Firefox) to the Mozilla community. For more details, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/beltzner.ca\/mike\/2010\/05\/10\/firefox-4-fast-powerful-and-empowering\/\">Mike Beltzner\u2019s blog post<\/a>, reposted below.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Firefox 4: fast, powerful, and empowering<\/h1>\n<p><small><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/beltzner.ca\/mike\/2010\/05\/10\/firefox-4-fast-powerful-and-empowering\/#comments\"><\/a> <\/small><\/p>\n<p>Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the  Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next  version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I  invited everyone to get involved by joining our engineering or product  development efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The primary goals for Firefox 4 will be making a browser:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Fast: making Firefox super-<em>duper<\/em> fast<\/li>\n<li> Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and <em>beyond!<\/em>),<\/li>\n<li> Empowering: putting users in <em>full<\/em> control of their  browser, data, and Web experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Usually software producers don\u2019t present these sorts of plans in  public until they\u2019re finalized, but Mozilla is a little  different. We  work in the  open, socializing our plans early and often to gather   feedback and build excitement in our worldwide  community. Not everyone  could attend the presentation today, though, so I\u2019m sharing the slides  and video here as well.<\/p>\n<p>That said: please understand that these plans are fluid and are <em>likely  to change<\/em>. As with past  releases, we use dates to set targets for  milestones, and then we work together to track to those targets. We  always judge each milestone release against our basic criteria of  quality,  performance, and usability, and we only ship when it\u2019s ready.<\/p>\n<p>If you have Firefox or a modern web browser that supports fully open  HTML video, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/videos.mozilla.org\/serv\/air_mozilla\/firefox4.ogg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch the presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d just like to thumb through the slides yourself, I\u2019ve put  them up on SlideShare:<\/p>\n<div id=\"__ss_4041936\"><object id=\"__sse4041936\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=firefoxroadmap20100510-100510155953-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=firefox-roadmap-2010-0510\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"__sse4041936\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"__sse4041936\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=firefoxroadmap20100510-100510155953-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=firefox-roadmap-2010-0510\" name=\"__sse4041936\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>As always we\u2019re interested in your feedback. Use <a href=\"https:\/\/rypple.com\/beltzner\/firefox4\">Rypple<\/a>, or leave a  comment here, or if you have specific thoughts about Firefox or our  platform development you can join the discussion in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox\/topics\">Firefox  Developer\u2019s Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.platform\/topics\">Mozilla  Platform Developer\u2019s Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\">Mozilla  Planning Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: On May 10, Mike Beltzner presented the vision for Firefox 4 (the next major release of Firefox) to the Mozilla community. For more details, check out Mike Beltzner\u2019s blog post, reposted below. 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