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Mozilla Corp.'s research arm wants to speed up tasks in Firefox that typically start with a blank tab, such as searching, reading Web mail or navigating to a new site, a company official said today.
"What do people do, what are they trying to do, when they open a new tab?" asked Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. "They're starting a new task. They certainly don't want just a blank page." To make it easier to shift gears from an active tab to a new, blank tab, Mozilla has come up with an extension, simply called "New Tab," that puts likely destinations in a column down the side of the screen.
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Mozilla Corp.'s research arm wants to speed up tasks in Firefox that typically start with a blank tab, such as searching, reading Web mail or navigating to a new site, a company official said today.
"What do people do, what are they trying to do, when they open a new tab?" asked Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. "They're starting a new task. They certainly don't want just a blank page." To make it easier to shift gears from an active tab to a new, blank tab, Mozilla has come up with an extension, simply called "New Tab," that puts likely destinations in a column down the side of the screen.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129518&source=NLT_AM
