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Revision as of 23:12, 12 August 2009
Tabbed Browsing
- Champion: Limi (limi@mozilla.com)
- Status: Draft
- Duration: 1 week
- Implementation: Not started yet. Will be implemented as a Firefox extension.
- Data to collect:
Introduction
Tabbed browsing is now the standard interface offered by all major web browsers, and its been argued that the browsing experience becomes difficult to manage when more than a handful of tabs are opened.
In conjunction with our recent focus on tabs and their possible reinvention (see the Summer 2009 Design Challenge: Reinventing Tabs, as well as in numerous blog posts) this study will seek to provide designers and developers additional information and insights to help inform the design of future tabbed interfaces.
Details
This will be the very first study of tabbed browsing through Test Pilot. Our goal for this study is to understand and design:
- Tab behaviors after people close a tab
- Ways to manage and navigate among a large number of tabs
- What the distribution of tabs are, wrt. how many people have open, max/min.
- How many people open new windows to group tabs
- How widely spread are sessions? Ex. Google search and new results in tabs
- How long do split sessions survive?
- Behavior around tab dragging and docking
- Tab selection errors
- T2(tab select) - T1(tab select) < 1.5s