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= Current Status =
= Current Status =
= What Is This All About =
'''See the [http://www.slideshare.net/guestab5fefd/tab-candy-presentation-short presentation]'''


= Problems =
= Problems =
* Tabs don’t scale.
* Tabs don’t scale.
* It’s time consuming to switch between tabs.
* It’s time consuming to switch between tabs.
* We work in semantic groups; our browser don’t. No understanding of search. Only basic understanding of “apps”.
* We work in semantic groups; our browser don’t.
* Our tabs have no understanding of search. Only basic understanding of “apps”.
* Bookmarks are to heavy, tabs are too light. No metaphors for saving/sharing/viewing what we are seeing.
* Bookmarks are to heavy, tabs are too light. No metaphors for saving/sharing/viewing what we are seeing.
* No incentive to clean up.
* No incentive to clean up.
* We spend over 70% of time on first & last tab [check this]
* We spend 76% of time on first & last tab.


= Goals / Use Cases =
= Goals / Use Cases =


<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_3279899"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guestab5fefd/tab-candy-presentation-short" title="Tab Candy Presentation Short">Tab Candy Presentation Short</a></strong><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tabcandypresentationshort-100225190423-phpapp01&rel=0&stripped_title=tab-candy-presentation-short" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tabcandypresentationshort-100225190423-phpapp01&rel=0&stripped_title=tab-candy-presentation-short" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
* Make switching between tabs easier
* Make grouping, saving, and managing tabs easier
* Productivity when you increase monitor size goes up by ~30% (recognition+spatial memory), bring this efficiency gain and ease of mind to tabs.


= Non-goals =
= Non-goals =
* Promote tab searching over other types of revisitation (for instance placing all of the tab results on top)
* Whole-sale replacement of tabs (by default)
* Overly complicate the current design of the awesome bar (through things like the introduction of additional icons, arrows, or moving the focus right/left in addition to up/down)
* Slowing down tab switching (with gratuitous animations, etc)
* Being an alt-tab replacement
* Trying to encompass all of Ubiquity's use cases. Only interested in navigation and information retrieval.


= Bugs =
= Bugs =
{{bug|480350}}
{{bug|455650}}


= Design =
= Design =
[http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/shiretoko/awesomeBari2.png Faaborg's initial mock-ups]
* More detailed designs coming soon
* See the [http://www.slideshare.net/guestab5fefd/tab-candy-presentation-short presentation].
http://img.skitch.com/20100226-r17g931yh7959abc9ie7cr5t6e.png
http://img.skitch.com/20100226-jpirgqa5spbj6k94qw228uc5t9.png
 
= Prototype =


[http://limi.net/articles/tab-matching-in-the-location-bar Limi's follow-up blog post with some suggested changes]
* Get the [http://code.google.com/p/tabcandy/source/browse/ source code] for the Firefox extension.


= Testing =
= Testing =
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Tab_Matches_in_Awesomebar/TestPlan Test Plan]
* TBD

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Overview

Description
Rethink the basic way we interact with multiple web-pages (tabs) and the jump-off navigation point.


Current Status

What Is This All About

See the presentation

Problems

  • Tabs don’t scale.
  • It’s time consuming to switch between tabs.
  • We work in semantic groups; our browser don’t.
  • Our tabs have no understanding of search. Only basic understanding of “apps”.
  • Bookmarks are to heavy, tabs are too light. No metaphors for saving/sharing/viewing what we are seeing.
  • No incentive to clean up.
  • We spend 76% of time on first & last tab.

Goals / Use Cases

  • Make switching between tabs easier
  • Make grouping, saving, and managing tabs easier
  • Productivity when you increase monitor size goes up by ~30% (recognition+spatial memory), bring this efficiency gain and ease of mind to tabs.

Non-goals

  • Whole-sale replacement of tabs (by default)
  • Slowing down tab switching (with gratuitous animations, etc)
  • Being an alt-tab replacement
  • Trying to encompass all of Ubiquity's use cases. Only interested in navigation and information retrieval.

Bugs

Design

20100226-r17g931yh7959abc9ie7cr5t6e.png 20100226-jpirgqa5spbj6k94qw228uc5t9.png

Prototype

Testing

  • TBD