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• FirefoxOS, formerly Boot2Gecko, is going to be available early next year. It is an OS aimed at commodity smartphones built exclusively on web standards, and it is pretty freaking neat. This has driven a lot of the performance improvements we've seen in Firefox (and Firefox for Android) over the last year.

• WebRTC: real-time communication in the browser without plugins required. p2p Audio, Video or data streams directly from within the browser, all in a couple lines of javascript.

• Rust, a C/C++ replacing system language that is memory safe. They just released version 0.4.

• Servo, a next-generation, multi-process, super-flexible browser engine, conveniently being written in Rust.

The UX designers have wanted to merge the Location and Search bar, but as a non-profit concerned about user privacy, Mozilla is worried about accidentally leaking private information to search engines.

1. Mozilla and Google are on good terms and have a long, positive history together, but both Chrome and Firefox engineering teams set out to be the best browser in the world.

Competition is a good thing. Firefox made Chrome possible in a post IE6-world. Chrome has made Firefox improve by leaps and bounds in performance. They both will continue to benefit from the other.