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Firefox OS has an uphill battle to impress consumers, and Mozilla is hoping that the social app store it’s developing will be the thing that sets it apart. Marketplace designer Liu Liu took to Mozilla’s blog to discuss the team’s decision to focus on “the feed,” which appears to share content much like a social media site. In this brave new Marketplace, users would be able to customize their homepages, receive personalized suggestions, like specific apps and view download statistics. To create a friendlier environment, Mozilla has also included profile photos so you can put a face to the name behind the apps. Liu was careful to point out that the Marketplace prototype is, for the time being, a concept, not a product, and it’ll certainly undergo several rounds of revisions before it’s ready to unleash upon the world. To learn more, read Liu’s blog post at the source or check out the video after the break.

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Source: Mozilla

The Spanish had first dibs on ZTE’s Open smartphone, but earlier this month we were told Americans and Brits would eventually be able to buy the Firefox OS device through ZTE’s local eBay storefronts. Well, the pages are now live, so in exchange for $80 or £60 (delivery is free), you can get yourself an unlocked Open in the eBay-exclusive orange hue; and, if the stock figures represent all ZTE has to hawk, it appears this initial batch will sell out before too long. We wouldn’t say the handset’s performance is good enough to disguise its miserly specs, but having a new mobile OS to poke around in for well under a Benjamin? Let’s just say that we’re having a hard time suppressing the impulse-buy urge.

[Thanks, Steve]

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Source: ZTE UK eBay store, ZTE US eBay store

It’s been a busy couple months for the folks over at Mozilla. The company rolled out a new logo, launched the first Firefox OS handset and shipped version 23 of its popular web browser. Still, Mozilla shows no signs of slowing down — it just announced a new version of Firefox for Android Beta, which is ready for download and testing. The update brings a raft of new features and improvements, including WebRTC support for real-time web communications, a new Reader and Reading List with enhanced functionality, NFC Bump to share URLs on compatible phones, a Quickshare menu to share content with other apps and additional languages (Catalan-Spanish, British-English and Swedish) for a total of 24. Moreover, Firefox Beta for Windows, OS X and Linux gains a tweaked Browser Console to help web developers — phew!

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Source: Mozilla blog

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Firefox 23 was launched today, Mozilla has added a new feature that caters to the social aspect of browsing the internet. Recently Mozilla had announced Firefox social integration partners which included Facebook, Cliqz, Mixi and msnNow. They’ve now added an integrated share button in the browser’s toolbar which allows users to share interesting content directly from Firefox. It only works with Cliqz or Facebook Messenger for Firefox right now. Users will also be able to share content either through private message or email.

Mozilla says that more services will soon feature support for the integrated share button, it says that other websites will start supporting its social API soon as well. Mozilla says that there is endless potential for integration of social services related to music, sports, news, finance and even e-mail. It looks forward to integrating more social sites, services and apps into Firefox. Making a web browser “social,” can be a slippery slope, take the infamous Rockmelt web browser for example, which has recently been acquired by Yahoo. Their social web browser wasn’t exactly able to generate a substantial user base. There is a difference though, Rockmelt’s selling point was its social features, whereas Mozilla is providing new social features to a rigid user base that appreciates its web browser.

Firefox Gets An Integrated Share Button original content from Ubergizmo.