The Internet is continuously transforming and adapting to become what people need it for and what they want to use it for whether they know they want it for that or not. Mozilla Labs is department of Mozilla dedicated to coming up with new ideas and developing new features for the Firefox web browser.
Anything goes here. Crazy ideas and inspirations are encouraged as we all explore and experiment with brand new ideas in whole new ways. Mozilla Labs is about inspiring and harnessing the intelligence, wisdom, and energy of the Mozilla community; let’s imagine the future of the Web, and then let’s build it together.
Prism is one of their projects which aims to bring web applications to the desktop. It's a lot like the Fluid application which available on Macs. What this means is that it customises it's own "copy" of the browser to be used solely with a particular site such as Google Docs for example so it doesn't make it available offline like Google Gears does - you still need an internet connection. However, offline storage is something which they have in their roadmap so it will be interesting to see where they go with it and whether it will have the same sort of power that a Google Gears powered application has.
Weave is another one, an extension which makes it easier to maintain different identities for the browser complete with automatic login to sites and synchronisation of bookmarks and saved passwords with other Weave-enabled versions of Firefox which you log in to. At the minute I don't think there is much use for Weave unless you use it to synchronise between a desktop and a laptop or between a work and home machine - until it's installed on more machines it will be a little hard to use it as something you can use for roaming. The ideas behind it though are well thought out and may turn out to be a very useful application once it's finished.
