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Designing Firefox 3.2, without Tabs

• Jem 18y ago
  I'm happy with my tabs. If Firefox loses tabs, Firefox loses me as a user.
  • danw 18y ago
    Change, fear it
    • Jem 18y ago
      I don't fear change. I fear change for the sake of change.
  • yolo 18y ago
    The idea is, as far as I see, not to totally lose tabs, but to reduce the excessive use of them. A good point, actually.
• bwh2 18y ago
  It's interesting that on HN, this domain is listed as (.informationarchitects.jp) . Maybe there's a bug in the URL parser that's incorrectly grabbing the ".info"
• unalone 18y ago
  The idea of sorting web information the way iTunes sorts music has always struck me as a good idea. I've wondered why Apple doesn't spend time creating a similar design for Safari. It bugs me that they release such comparatively conservative updates, when in other fields they're innovating faster than anybody. I use a lot of different web sites. I travel all over. It makes sense, then, to treat the opening of a web browser not as a single connection to a page, but as the initiation of a set of pages visited. Top Pages/Speed Dial solves some of that, but that's a page that appears only once. The real solution is figuring out how to make a single interface that handles everything, without the obnoxious clutter of Flock.
• quoderat 18y ago
  If Firefox goes that direction, I will no longer be able to use it. No tabs == all the disorganization of IE6, with all the "new media" crap of iTunes. I don't mind change. But I want it to make me more productive, not less so. I don't want flash and "ooh ahh" technologies because some geek who never has to use it thought it was cool.