Mozilla showed off Firefox Launcher for Android, the company’s upcoming launcher at the InContext Conference in San Francisco yesterday. This is a has a contextual mobile interface and uses EverythingMe’s contextual adaptive app search for a personalized and customizable Web experience.
Firefox invested in Everything.me, a Israeli-based contextual computing startup back in 2012. The company launched EverythingMe Launcher in 2013, which got updated to version 2.0 recently, that brought Smart Folders with predication and more new features. Looks like the upcoming Firefox launcher would be based on the EverythingMe Launcher.
Regarding the upcoming launcher Firefox said,
We’re working together to deliver the best mobile Web experience to people everywhere – regardless of location, platform or device. We are happy to expand our work together with this new product to give people more smart, easy and innovative ways to personalize their Web experience and meet their needs in any context. Firefox Launcher for Android makes it easy to discover the content you want in any moment and is optimized for the way you use your phone.
Beta testing for the Firefox Launcher would soon, and we will let you know once the app is available.