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Firefox Sheds Light on Future By daynamarcum

Apr 15, 2009

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The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Apr 14, 2009

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Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patterns. The most radical proposal we have seen so far would do away with the standard browser tabs, and replace them with an interface that looks more like iTunes than Firefox.

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Oliver Reichenstein and Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, have been thinking about the future of tabs in Firefox, and some of the resulting mockups are quite intriguing.

Reichenstein argues that tabs were a good solution for an earlier age of the Internet, where users hardly ever had more than ten tabs open at any given time. Now, however, as browsers are slowly turning into operating systems, a new paradigm for organizing this information has become necessary.

The current generation of browsers does a decent job when it comes to ke

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Comments (3)

Bwana,

Apr 14, 2009

Sweet!! I'm hooked on tree tabs!