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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wrote, on April 4th, 2007
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
wrote, on April 4th, 2007
Ashish: I share a same feeling towards social networks. There simply keep me hooked up, so I’m out of it.
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
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.
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
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..
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
Firefox have a great userbase, most of those who are tech savvy so this will help them to get start fast
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
actually.. I’m looking forward to this..
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
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.
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
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
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
I wish I could migrate to Antarctica so that there are no social networks there.
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
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.
wrote, on April 5th, 2007
Orkut is enough for me .
wrote, on April 6th, 2007
SU (stumble upon) already does on firefox the major part of those functions.
wrote, on April 8th, 2007
Well they have to compete against Flock, no?
wrote, on July 24th, 2008
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.