All Things Digital (News - Alert) or All Things D is an online publication that specializes in technology and startup company news. On April 15 and 16, 2013, the company held the D: Dive into Mobile – Global Edition conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Ritz-Carlton in New York City.

The conference focused on the omnipresence of mobile technologies. It also looked into how this “mobile first revolution” is reshaping the media, technology, communication and entertainment industries around the world.

Mozilla (News - Alert), maker of the FireFox browser, was at the conference. Gary Kovacs is the CEO at Mozilla. He believes that the industry has fallen short when it comes to improving mobile Web browsers. In spite of the fact that a lot of people spent most of their time using apps on their smartphones, the browser takes a backseat.

While speaking at the All Things D: Dive into Mobile conference last week, Gary Kovacs said, "We haven't done a great job [on mobile browsing]. I'm expecting someone will do a Apple (News - Alert) on the whole browsing experience. At some point the mobile browser will provide an ‘entirely different experience,’ rather than just a shrunken down version of the desktop browser."  

The Apple reference refers to how Apple changed the entire phone business with the iPhone (News - Alert). Kovacs is hoping that something revolutionary will happen with the mobile browser, while Mozilla has high hopes that the mobile browser will be at the center of the mobile phone experience.

Earlier this month, we talked about Mozilla releasing FireFox OS and its integration of a payment system. The FireFox OS is based on the FireFox browser so you can be confident in thinking that when it is released the focus will be on mobile browsing.

FireFox OS aims to better merge the mobile app world with the Internet. Phones that will run the Firefox OS software will launch in the U.S. sometime in 2014.  Later this year, the OS should make its way to phones in Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Venezuela, and other territories. That might happen as early as June 2013.

In its current form, the FireFox OS is designed to work with Android (News - Alert)-based phones. One of the phones that will not see FireFox OS is the iPhone. Kovacs said “iOS has a policy where you have to use their Web engine. Our Web engine is very different.”

There are no real details as to how this new mobile Web experience might be light, how it will look and what it will be capable of.

On a side note, Kovacs also announced that he would be stepping down as the CEO of Mozilla this year. He was quoted as saying, “I learned in college that you don’t want to stay at a party too long. It’s time for me to move on to other things.”