Nudging developers towards the open Web, the Mozilla Foundation is customizing a version of its popular Firefox browser that can be used to build Web pages and applications, potentially reducing the number of different tools now required for the job.

Although it didn’t provide many details on what features will be in the new browser, the organization plans to release the as-yet-unnamed software on Nov. 10, according to a blog item posted Monday.

“This is interesting because the browser is essentially an IDE [integrated development environment] for many Web developers,” wrote Al Hilwa, IDC program director for software development research, in an email. “Mozilla has had tools supporting this workflow for some time in Firefox. It makes some sense to fork a separate version to double down on these capabilities.”

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