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February 6, 2014 03:26 am GMT
Mozilla wants to help you find new apps and rediscover those you downloaded but forgot. So today it previewed Firefox Launcher for Android, a homescreen replacement powered by Israeli contextual computing startup EverythingMe that will become available for download “in the coming weeks”. Firefox Launcher includes the major features of EverythingMe’s eponymous contextual homescreen replacement that just came out of beta yesterday. Mozilla tapped the 60-person, $35.5 million-backed EverythingMe to bring contextual experiences to its Firefox OS. Firefox Launcher gives you suggestions of apps you’re most likely to use at an moment, smart folders that collect apps with similar purposes, and smart search that shows apps you have as well as those you might download or web apps you might visit that relate to a searched keyword. Mozilla and EverythingMe showed off a demo of the forthcoming Android experience today at the InContext Conference in San Francisco, and gave me some extra screenshots not available on the Mozilla blog. Here you can see how Firefox Launcher’s Prediction Bar (the second row from the bottom) knows it’s the afternoon and suggests appropriate apps like your calendar, Huffington Post News, and an app for checking out nearby businesses so you can plan your evening. These differ from the apps shown in the “Good Morning” screenshot above where the Prediction Bar suggest weather and alarm apps. When you search for something in Firefox Launcher, it brings up related apps on your phone and relevant web experiences. It deeplinks theese icons so if you search Katy Perry it will show you a Spotify shortcut that will open her artist page instead of the standard Spotify homescreen. Firefox Launcher also provides context by directly providing information through content cards. Search “News” or “Tech” and it will bring up cards from various news sources about the top stories of the day.
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Mozilla And EverythingMe Preview Firefox Launcher, An Android Homescreen That Fights App Overload
Mozilla wants to help you find new apps and rediscover those you downloaded but forgot. So today it previewed Firefox Launcher for Android, a homescreen replacement powered by Israeli contextual computing startup EverythingMe that will become available for download “in the coming weeks”. Firefox Launcher includes the major features of EverythingMe’s eponymous contextual homescreen replacement that just came out of beta yesterday. Mozilla tapped the 60-person, $35.5 million-backed EverythingMe to bring contextual experiences to its Firefox OS. Firefox Launcher gives you suggestions of apps you’re most likely to use at an moment, smart folders that collect apps with similar purposes, and smart search that shows apps you have as well as those you might download or web apps you might visit that relate to a searched keyword. Mozilla and EverythingMe showed off a demo of the forthcoming Android experience today at the InContext Conference in San Francisco, and gave me some extra screenshots not available on the Mozilla blog. Here you can see how Firefox Launcher’s Prediction Bar (the second row from the bottom) knows it’s the afternoon and suggests appropriate apps like your calendar, Huffington Post News, and an app for checking out nearby businesses so you can plan your evening. These differ from the apps shown in the “Good Morning” screenshot above where the Prediction Bar suggest weather and alarm apps. When you search for something in Firefox Launcher, it brings up related apps on your phone and relevant web experiences. It deeplinks theese icons so if you search Katy Perry it will show you a Spotify shortcut that will open her artist page instead of the standard Spotify homescreen. Firefox Launcher also provides context by directly providing information through content cards. Search “News” or “Tech” and it will bring up cards from various news sources about the top stories of the day. Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/90yfQvIzbUA/
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