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Mozilla targets tabs in Summer Design Challenge 09
With their Spring Design Challenge recently wrapped up, Mozilla has announced the 2009 summer edition. The focus this time around will be on reinventing tabs in the browser.
Browser tabs haven't changed much since their introduction, yet the web itself continues evolving rapidly. The goal of this challenge is to envision innovative new ways to handle multiple web pages in a single browser window.
The previous challenge winners produced some very compelling concepts - like the virtual desk for collaborative research - and it will be interesting to see which proposals stand out this time around. As Brad wrote last month, perhaps the time has come for tabs as we know them to vanish completely.
If you've got a great idea and the required design chops, put your mockup together and post it to Flickr, Vimeo, or YouTube with the tag mozconcept and ping conceptseries@mozilla.com with your link.
Who knows - we might all be enjoying your creation in a future version of Firefox.
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Daniel Blois said 6:40PM on 5-15-2009
I am not good with creating a mock-up video or anything like that but I have an idea that I think would make tabs so much easier to use! make them just like the Windows 7 Task bar:
1) make multiple tabs from the same site be grouped togeather in 1 tab
2) when you hover over the tab, you will see live previews of all the tabs for that website.
3) you can hover over one of the live windows and get like the Aero Peak where you see the website full size.
4) you can close, refresh, open in new window, etc, all important features right from the live previews.
5) And of course you click on it, it will open the tab full
6) I think also it should show just the favicon, in a finger size button like they do on the task bar.
However, everything here should be user configurable. Somebody else might want to see the full text, etc. You should be able to turn every little piece on or off.
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