Firefox/Projects/About:newtab

Overview

Drivers: Dan Mills (thunder), Aza Razkin (aza), Edward Lee (Mardak)
Get involved: by hopping onto #labs on irc.mozilla.org or clicking on Discussion and leaving your comments

Description

Instead of a blank page, the new tab page should present useful task-centric navigation options based on the user's history.

Goals / Use Cases

• be perceptibly as fast as about:blank to load
• allow user to re-open previously closed tabs
• offer navigation targets that are likely to be of use to the user
• do not break the user's mental "flow" or otherwise interrupt a user task

Non Goals

• act as a content aggregator for "new" material

Design

v0.0.1

• provide thumbnail links to commonly visited pages along the bottom of the page
• put links to recently closed tabs along the side of the page
• if there is content in the clipboard, provide a button to search for that content in the upper left of the page
• if there are RSS feeds on the commonly visited pages, show the most recent 3 stories for those above their thumbnails

Test Builds / Add-Ons

About:Tab source on mercurial