Firefox Mobile Browser: Video Demo

June 12, 2008 in Software & Apps

Mobile web browsing is still in its infancy and one thing that could be improve the experience immediately is more robust web browsers. Everyone knows Firefox is hard at work building a solution, but it isn’t until now that we’ve gotten a sneak peak at how the browser might work.

In this video, Aza Raskin (Head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs) Demos a current working model of Firefox’s mobile browser. Our opinion? Pretty freaking amazing.

It knocks the socks off anything currently out there. They integrate tabbed browsing and navigation while solving the limitations of screen real estate and the mobile experience. It looks good in video, but the screens it will take place on reality (mobile phones) will likely be much smaller. That’s the ultimate test and it appears there are still some hurdles to jump. Fat fingered folks need big buttons!

We’d also like to point out that he starts out by saying he’d like to show you, “a possible direction for Firefox on mobile,” and finished up with, “this isn’t necessarily the exact way we’re going to go with mobile. It might look entirely different.”

That makes us think, “it’s only going to get better.” And that… that, my friend is a beautiful thing.

Here’s what a few other folks are saying about Firefox Mobile:

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Comments:

  1. I like the idea, it truly is very different from anything else. The whole dragging to get what you want is good. I think it might get a little tiresome for zooming in and out though, in comparison to the browser we've seen on Android already that zooms out with a doubletap.      by EChid
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