Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing?

Barence writes "Mozilla Labs has launched a design competition that aims to find an alternative to tabbed browsing. 'Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin internet, where ten browser sessions were "many browser sessions,"' Mozilla claims on its Design Challenge website. 'Today, 20+ parallel sessions are quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive. However, if you have more than seven or eight tabs open they become pretty much useless.' Aza Raskin, the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs, has already blogged on the possibility of moving tabs down the side of the browser, with tabs grouped by the type of activity involved (i.e. applications, work spaces)."

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Here we go again.

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This is the work of a guy who initially had a good idea (to make devs aware of the holes and have them fill them) but then got caught into the listing and thus began the fill-out bullshitting you do when you write an essay for your teacher in high school.

I won't quote the points because that will make my post look very long and we all know /. is full of lazy asses such as yours truly. However...

0. This is not a problem of Linux nor does it have anything to do with Linux being ready for the desktop or not. This is solely a matter of ideology, which Linux stays neutral to. It promotes FOSS but never forces it.
1. This is a matter of hardware. I've had problems with my sound twice in Linux, once when I had a creative live 1024 (I know, but I learned from my mistake) and once when I had a USB headset back when USB audio was fairly new. Same goes for the sub points, however 1.3 is a vendor problem that affects Linux. Vendor problems affect Windows as well, nobody blames Windows for those. Peri-fucking-od.
2.1 I don't really understand this one. I have hundreds of GTK applications, all which work just fine. 2.2 Composite is the new desktop. Make peace with it or be information technologically retarded.
2.4.3 There's alot of points about fonts, which I cannot say are true or not as I really am not that into fonts. However this point is merely a matter of opinion.
2.4.3.2 That's because MS owns those fonts. Should dists pay MS to use a handfull of fucking fonts? Get the fuck out of here man. That's the dumbest shit I've heard.
3. This is a matter of mentality. The common user isn't accustomed to the freedom of choice, thus the new Linux user needs to rewire his brain. This is a part of Linux which cannot be changed because it is the very fundaments of it, and nor do we want this to change. Important side note: when using Linux, don't think Windows. K? Thx.
3.3 In a perfect world. It's pretty fucking close already, but Utopia doesn't exist. Impossible demand, next.
4. This can be applied to a certain extent but if you strive to do this fully you'd end up with more problems than what the GUI was going to solve. People can learn the ping command, no need to assume that they are retarded vegetables.
5. This is a self solving point as stated. We realise the issues at hand but only by allowing Linux to grow can these issues be resolved. We're all anticipating.
7. See above statement.
8.1 Most distros? Then don't use those "most distros". Not all distros are aimed towards you, make sure you find one that is.
11. See point 5.
13. In comparison to what? Windows? Really now, don't even get me started.