Mozilla Firefox browser, is desktop search coming?

According to this article in Network World Fusion, Mozilla may not only have the browser as part of an offering, but a desktop search as well. One of the people quoted states it this way:

Regarding integration with desktop search tools, the idea would be to offer Firefox users a choice of third-party tools for searching information stored on their PCs...There are a variety of companies that are working on that technology and we may just try and identify a way for Firefox to plug into a variety of desktop search engines and enable users to pick and choose.

Mozilla recently released Firefox 1.0 and has been gaining marketshare on Microsoft. There might be an estimated 12% of the browser market now using Firefox. As an open source software project, Firefox has been quite a success. It's a true phoenix. Out of the ashes of the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft, comes Firefox and bites Microsoft in the rear end.

I would guess that the third party desktop search companies are looking hotly to court Firefox because that will help them get a springboard into a growing adoption in the browser market. Nothing could be better for them in this all out battle over desktop search.

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