Firefox/Projects/Home Tab
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Summary
Investigate a full window, client side, browse-based UI to serve as the user's home on the Web, and the ability to create chromeless app tabs.
Current Status
Very early conceptual design work.
Next Steps
- Post first round of mockups for feedback
Related Bugs
- Will be posted once the first round of mockups are complete
Team
- Project Lead: faaborg
- everyone
Designs
coming soon
Goals/Use Cases
Designs will explore a range of ideas, including:
- Frequently visited sites with ambient news
- Leveraging the user's social graph for ambient social news
- Access to all available search engines
- Browse-based interface into bookmarks and history (ties into the Places UI project)
- Increasing the discoverability of personalization with personas
- Message snippets
- Fully localized season and holiday changes (could be lots of fun, also really lots of work, but worth exploring).
Non Goals
- Non goal 1: A streamlined and simplistic page. This page is going to provide a rich experience, with an expressive visual design and a range of features, it might even be a bit distracting (er, engaging). This is a fully recognition-based interface (the new tab page will likely remain fully recall-based).
- Non goal 2: The traditional home page portal slum of tabloid level celebrity news, sensationalistic titles, and pathetic attempts to leverage the screen real estate to promote unrelated products (instant messenger apps, iPods, etc.). This page will be 100% about the specific user and their fully personalized experience on the Web, it is not about the company that created the browser.