Mozilla Labs

Mozilla Labs represent an Internet place full of experimental resources. Practically, Mozilla Labs follow the traditional definition and scope of laboratory in science. The main goals are to promote ideas at the research level and, after exploration of the new web technologies, the corresponding experiments will be conducted in a "virtual laboratory".

The projects existing on Mozilla Labs suggest the fact that their direction of development tends to break the line between traditional desktop applications and web based applications and services. The Mozilla Labs do not try to change the actual web technologies. They want to improve the user experience with web applications by enhancing them if is possible with features of desktop applications. In this sense, one of Mozilla Labs experiments, called Prism, allows users to run web based applications directly on desktop, without being the need of a web browser presence.

With Prism every web application can run in its own window and it can be accessed by identifying the corresponding icon. As a consequence, any web application that is capable to run in a modern web browser will also run on your desktop with the help of Prism. This Mozilla Labs experimental software is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS systems and is based on Firefox technology and will take to your computer desktop any web based application compatible with it.

Another interesting project from Mozilla Labs is Mozilla Weave. It is trying to bring web applications on your computer desktop by combining the web browser functionalities with online services. Users will have more control over a custom online experience. The Weave framework will provide developers an opportunity to build new applications which will be focused on online services integration.

At Mozilla Labs there are also more projects which bring useful Firefox browser enhancements, like colorful tabs and dynamic themes or projects regarding information sharing and mobile data management. If you want to test any of the software projects provided by Mozilla Labs that involves the usage of Firefox browser, it is recommended to download and install the latest version.