UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Mozilla enters Web app store arena

|
 
Credit: Mozilla
Credit: Mozilla
Published: June 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM

REDMOND, Wash., June 13 (UPI) -- Mozilla says it is entering the app universe, opening its own Web Marketplace to compete with Apple's App Store and Google Play.

The Mozilla Marketplace is intended to give users a one-stop shop for Web-based apps and games directly through it Firefox browser, TG Daily reported Wednesday.

Fully compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux, the Mozilla Marketplace seems intent on providing users the same point-and-click convenience as its Apple or Google competitors, analysts said.

One difference is that the Mozilla Marketplace actually presents its apps as desktop applications, with each app treated as a regular computer program that can be launched from the Windows Start Menu or given its own desktop icon.

This ties the Mozilla Marketplace closely to a user's operating system, making if more than just an extension of a user's browser, TG Daily said.

© 2012 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
Additional Technology Stories
1 of 14
Obama in Berlin
View Caption
A child is seen playing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin on June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will later speak at the Brandenburg Gate where fifty years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa
fark
Man upset that the mother of his child refused to let him see his kid decides to randomly shoot...
From the Powerball FAQ: "Swinging a live chicken above your head while wishing for the future numbers...
"My family is being torn apart because my husband won't wear his seatbelt"
In Walmart's defense: do we really KNOW that pregnant women with urinary tract infections need to...
From "Oh no he didn't" & "Oh yes he did" to "My hair is a nest, your argument is invalid" it's this...
We'll never have flying cars until we have flying bikes .. and that time has come thanks to two...