Firefox to get social networking features

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

This post was published by on April 4, 2007

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  • http://www.technospot.net/blogs/ Ashish Mohta

    lol another social one….Honestly I am really tired of social networks.I really don’t have time to keep up with so many.Just my views

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ashish: I share a same feeling towards social networks. There simply keep me hooked up, so I’m out of it.

  • http://www.esplanade.sg lyndonmaxewell

    Social network sites are the place where the bulk of people will be. This is a good market to tap into for them, but I wonder if it is too late, as the market looks saturated.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    lyndonmaxewell: Yeah, the market certainly looks saturated, but I feel.. people will surely fall in love with Firefox because it gives them the ultimate social feel..

  • http://spotgeek.com/geekbytes/ knight17

    Firefox have a great userbase, most of those who are tech savvy so this will help them to get start fast

  • http://www.everydayweekender.com Everyday Weekender

    actually.. I’m looking forward to this..

  • http://apexad.net apex

    I hope they make it an optional add-on or maybe even just a plugin, because it’s not that I don’t use social networks, but I think firefox uses enough memory as it is.

  • http://www.avirtualexit.com Gili

    i concur with the commented above.
    From the user perspective, the number of social network is overwhelming. As far as the business model, i strongly believe that this market is saturated, and thus do not really understand the timing of this project release. BTW- is this in alpha or beta?

    Gili

  • http://www.shaarique.com Sharique

    I wish I could migrate to Antarctica so that there are no social networks there.

  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    Yikes another one. I’m sure most of the people who use friendster and myspace will love this. I’ll probably be part of the minority who won’t use this.

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Orkut is enough for me .

  • http://www.centrostudilaruna.it Runa

    SU (stumble upon) already does on firefox the major part of those functions.

  • Dijo

    Well they have to compete against Flock, no?

  • http://www.arbitraryian.com/ Yian

    Well, I’m glad Firefox hasn’t decided to add this as of yet. Social networking features are really unneeded and will only add to the bloat of the browser. It’s far better if they stick to actual browsing and make that work faster than to spend time on little add-ons. There are already many extensions that aid in social networking.