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Overview

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

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.

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.

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.

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 = 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 =