How Mozilla plans to attract new Firefox users

As for the Mozilla Firefox features, the company said it will enhance every feature it deems to be “functional, and a joy to use”, while eliminating codes they don’t expect to ideal in the near future.

To connect to the web client of the app from your web browser, the users of the app must open web.whatsapp.com in his or her Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browsers.

In a pair of messages that Dave Camp, director of Firefox engineering, posted to a mail list, as well as a blog post, Mozilla summarized some of the decisions it reached at an all-hands meeting in Whistler, a Canadian ski resort town north of Vancouver, BC, last week.

“One of the first things we need to get right is e10s”, said Cook.

In the future, Mozilla will make the most of the same technology to render itself that the Web does, and that’s good for everyone. “We intend to spend some significant effort making addons even more awesome by improving security and performance for users and a building a better API that increases x-platform compatibility for addon authors and partners”, Camp says in the e-mail. Its main aim is to attract new users by focusing on distinguishing features like Private Browsing mode.

Contributing to Firefox gets easier because there is no need to learn what are essentially Mozilla-specific languages. This also creates complexity for Firefox’s proprietary rendering engine Gecko.

Mozilla also announced that it will continue to work with other organizations to bring “the best of the Web” to Mozilla Firefox users.

In a separate e-mail to firefox-dev, Camp outlined another big change for Firefox: XUL and XBL are going away, “but the discussion of how to do that is in the early stages”.

Microsoft will introduce a new browser in Windows 10 called Edge, in an attempt to offer users with a modern experience from the very beginning, but it seems like competition on the upcoming platform will soon get fiercer.

Eliminate the need to support XUL and XBL in Gecko.

“Critical fixes should ship to users in minutes, not days”, it read, stating that the current “18-week cycle” the company now follows when releasing major updates is no longer acceptable in today’s internet.

Mozilla Firefox is sluggishly recovering from an earlier slump in its market share.