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> You can log into a Google, Yahoo, or CalDav account to sync with an online calendar. I had no trouble logging into my Google account for this purpose, and I c

by kijin 14y ago

> You can log into a Google, Yahoo, or CalDav account to sync with an online calendar. I had no trouble logging into my Google account for this purpose, and I could create and edit events as well as viewing them. I wonder if Mozilla plans to launch their own contacts & calendar sync service based on their Firefox Sync infrastructure. Letting Google know everything might be too much for the privacy-sensitive Mozilla folks. On the other hand, I would be very wary of any sync service that is modeled on Firefox Sync. It syncs when it wants to. It takes hours, if not days, for my PC bookmarks and history to show up on my phone (Firefox for Android). > things got awkward if we wanted to read a website linked from a tweet. Clicking on a link causes Twitter to load the tweet in a separate browser window. After reading an article, there was no obvious way to navigate back to Twitter. The browser's back button was grayed out because as far as the browser was concerned we had merely opened the page in a new window. I don't see any reason why, in 2013, a web page should open in a new window. The desktop version of Firefox opens "new windows" in new tabs instead, and has done so for as long as I can remember. Every modern browser except IE does this by default. Even the mobile version of Firefox supports tabs, albeit in a slightly unusual manner. If everything is going to be a web page anyway, why not open things in new tabs by default? Everyone already knows how tabs works. Pressing Back would return to the tab that opened it.

fabrice_d 14y ago
If you use the twitter site from Firefox OS browser, links will just open in a new tab as you expect. What they where using is the twitter app. In this situation, external links are openened as _target=blank and we redirect these page loads to the browser app.
- kijin 14y ago
  I understand that you can't control all the third-party apps. Still, I am a little disappointed that there remains such a strong distinction between the "browser app" and other apps when the entire OS is essentially a very powerful browser.
  - fabrice_d 14y ago
    Hm.. I see what you mean. The nice thing is that anyone can experiment and build a different system app that would be more like a browser with apps in tabs if you want. Getting all the UX right and please everybody is hard ;)
  - rhelmer 14y ago
    I disagree - apps run in their own process, and can have separate privileges from the browser process. Web applications on Firefox OS are not the same as tabs in a desktop browser. Twitter might not be the best example, admittedly :)

by kijin 14y ago

fabrice_d 14y ago

If you use the twitter site from Firefox OS browser, links will just open in a new tab as you expect. What they where using is the twitter app. In this situation, external links are openened as _target=blank and we redirect these page loads to the browser app.

kijin 14y ago
I understand that you can't control all the third-party apps. Still, I am a little disappointed that there remains such a strong distinction between the "browser app" and other apps when the entire OS is essentially a very powerful browser.
- fabrice_d 14y ago
  Hm.. I see what you mean. The nice thing is that anyone can experiment and build a different system app that would be more like a browser with apps in tabs if you want. Getting all the UX right and please everybody is hard ;)
- rhelmer 14y ago
  I disagree - apps run in their own process, and can have separate privileges from the browser process. Web applications on Firefox OS are not the same as tabs in a desktop browser. Twitter might not be the best example, admittedly :)