Mozilla is working on adding some social networking element into Firefox. The project codenamed “The Coop†aims at keeping track of friends and sharing interesting content with one or more friends. Users can add friends and see their faces, clicking on their avatar will fetch their recently added Flickr Photos, favorite YouTube videos, tagged website, composed blog posts or even his Facebook status.
Sharing interesting stuff with your friend is as simple as dragging that into their face. Similarly, if your friend sends something, his avatar will glow; notifying you that he has sent something. I strongly believe that such social components in a browser might bring revolutionary changes to way we surf the web.
I welcome this new feature, but I fear that it might suck a bit more memory and kill the overall performance of the browser. I’m not a great fan of social networks; however, I know people who live and die for social networks and the major of folks belong to this category, so Coop might drastically improve the market share of Firefox. The Coop feature is still in a premature stage, check out the Coop Wiki
Via TechCrunch
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