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)."

Comments

Re:I can see it now

[Robin47]

Yes, one with tabs. Lots of tabs. In different colors...

Re:20+

[modmans2ndcoming]

get off the web old man!

I wish they would take someone's browser license away when he/she gets to old to keep track of their browsing, they just clog up the tubes.

Re:Bah

[MyLongNickName]

And one more thing. Javascript the lingua franca of the web? It makes me ill.

If tabs are fine for you, please move along

[paulkoan]

In summary there are two short-sighted points of view in this commentary:

1) "I don't use many tabs, so there is no need to change tabs"

2) "I have hundreds of tabs open and don't have a problem, so there is no need to change tabs"

Guess what, no one gives a crap if tabs are fine for you. The reason why this is being explored is for those people who tabs do *not* work for.

I know, it is obvious now I have explained it, but don't feel embarrassed or anything.