Junior navigation buttons are placed on either side of the screen.
(Credit: Screenshot by Steven Musil/CNET)
The plus button takes users to a list of recently visited pages, as well as a search tool.
(Credit: Screenshot by Steven Musil/CNET)
Mozilla is developing a new Web browser to challenge Safari on Apple's iPad.
The organization behind the Firefox desktop Web browser is working on a new mobile browser called "Junior," according to a video presentation (see below) delivered by company's Product Design Strategy team on Thursday. Junior is "an iPad browser that makes browsing more fun, more ergonomic and re-thinks browser user experience from the ground up," the company said on an intro page to the presentation.
"We wanted to make something entirely new. We wanted to look into how we could reinvent the browser for a new form factor," Firefox product designer Alex Limi said in the video, calling the Safari on iPad "a miserable experience."
"There are a lot of reasons we should be on iOS even though we can't bring our rendering engine there," Limi said, noting that Mozilla currently has "no vehicle on one of the biggest consumer platforms in the world."
In the demonstration, the team explained that the prototype browser fills the iPad's ent... [Read more]
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