Mozilla is working on a new project it calls the “Snowl”. An add-on for Firefox, Snowl aims to help you access all your messages at one place –within the browser. Currently the support is basic though. Atom, RSS feeds and Twitter are supported right now – but we can expect SMS and e-mail support later. Support for social networking sites and other sources like Gtalk, AIM are also in the pipeline.
That makes it kind of similar to the existing Thunderbird client – although Mozilla claims that the objective of Snowl is to “help you follow and participate in online discussions.”
Users can choose to have the feeds served in two different ways. One is a typical three paned window –email style. The other option is to have it served in a “river of news” view. Messages, no matter what the source, would be searchable and it does not matter whether the messages are private or public.
Snowl is available for download. But be warned, the current version according to Mozilla is “primitive” and buggy. Updates to future versions could result in loss of messages and stored data. Unless you are a nerd who would like to test it
Snowl is a part of the Concept Series initiative that invites external contributions in terms of ideas and innovations for designing the development of future browsers and an enhanced web experience. More details on the other concepts here
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