Shell takes the essential elements of your web browser, desktop environment and window manager and combines them into a single minimalist graphical shell dedicated to using web applications.

An interesting take on the browser-as-desktop concept similar to Google's own Chrome OS.

^[1] Certainly not my cup of tea, but I can see reasons for Mozilla to push this kind of initiative.

(via OMG! Ubuntu!)

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1. I have linked to Google's Chromebook page simply because "Chrome OS" is only available on one of those products. To get the stand alone operating system you must look into Google's open source Chromium project. ↩︎