The Mozilla Marketplace enables developers to create and distribute applications that work across HTML5-enabled devices and operating systems (OS).

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Whether Microsoft co-opts Firefox's best ideas, or the Web browser continues gobbling up market share, we'll all be using Mozilla's best ideas to access those new applications soon.

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But instead of using Google's Gears, Jolicloud relies on Mozilla's Prism and Firefox to run various web-based applications.

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The Mozilla Ignite Challenge is a multi-stage competition in which Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invite designers, developers and everyday people to brainstorm and build applications for the faster, smarter Internet of the future.

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