Mozilla unveils the Firefox Marketplace and Facebook integration

25.10.2012

With the Aurora version of for Android released last week, Mozilla is offering early adopters and testers a sneak peek at its apps store.

"This release features a selection of showcase apps in the areas of games, productivity, and news and media that users can browse, install, and use," explains a Thursday on the Mozilla blog. Among the first apps ready for testing are , , , and .

Firefox Marketplace is designed to allow developers to build, distribute, and monetize immersive apps built on Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

To check out Firefox Marketplace, you can and then open Firefox Aurora on your Android phone; in the Options menu, choose "Apps" (or "Tools" then "Apps") and browse the . Support for and Firefox on other platforms will come in the future, Mozilla said.