User Experience: How Mozilla Tab Candy will push the browser war
filed in User Experience on Jul.26, 2010
It would seem that Mozilla is really an organization who likes to push the browser to their limits.
They came up with the Awesome Bar concept which really make my life much easier and tried different variations in order to give us users a good user experience.
Mozilla’s head of user experience for its Labs unit, Aza Raskin, on Friday unveiled a new project called “Tab Candy” that promises to dramatically change the way users manage open browser tabs.
Tab Candy is not an extension, but a new feature that Raskin and team plan to build into a future version of the Firefox browser. In essence, it creates a desktop-like workspace for users to separate and organize open tabs into groups. When opened, these groups act like their own instance of the browser. So, say you had grouped together 5 of 50 open tabs, then opened that group through Tab Candy; you’d only see those 5 in your browser, and not the other 45.
Take a look at their concept. I think it has potential and when built in could really differentiate their browser:
An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
