Overview
Drivers: Dan Mills (thunder), Aza Razkin (aza), Edward Lee (Mardak)
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- 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
Download
- Install the latest Firefox 3.1 beta (required)
- Install the latest about:tab extension
Version History
v0.0.13
- update min firefox version to 3.1
- adjust layout of actions
- better style feed links
v0.0.12
- show 5 feed items for sites next to their thumbnails
v0.0.11
- adjust layout to have thumbnails on the right side
- show just one undo close tab option at the top/left
v0.0.10
- cache site listing to improve performance of opening a new tab
v0.0.9
- add icon for new tab page
- handle ctrl/shift clicks and middle clicks
v0.0.8
- cache thumbnail images instead of reloading every time
v0.0.7
- show thumbnails of the sites and adjust layout
v0.0.6
- switch to frecency instead of visit count
- allow multiple clipboard detectors
v0.0.1 - v.0.0.5
- provide 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