I have a bit of a conflict of interest on this topic, being a developer for a window manager, but I also have some rarely expressed opinions because of that poi

I have a bit of a conflict of interest on this topic, being a developer for a window manager, but I also have some rarely expressed opinions because of that point of view. So, keep that in mind when reading my comments below. This is an idea I've heard before. I agree that everything in the world is going to the web. File systems will become distributed. Every application you use will come from the internet, with the exception of your kernel and the software needed to retrieve the applications. They'll probably run remotely, too, and just send you the graphics/UI. However, I think that turning the web browser into a window manager is going in the wrong direction. It completely disobeys the Unix philosophy of writing programs that do one thing well. Firefox's role in the future should be rendering and running remote applications. Organizing the apps using tabs, MDI, windows, workspaces, viewports, etc. should be left to the people who are spending all of their time thinking about how to organize applications.