Identity Management

• logging in to services
• smarter/auto form fill

Task Aware Browsing

• navigating through your tabs in a task-based manner
• understanding and optimizing for the task at hand
• Ubiquity Uplift

Navigation by Metadata

• where links came from
• navigate by tag / date / source
• navigate by visual indication as opposed to just titles and URLs

Creating Content

• sending files
• sending rich data

Knowing The User

• understanding usage patterns to predict future behaviour
• page navigation flows
• understanding optimal preferences based on usage
• offering add-ons based on usage

Web Application Support

• allowing web applications to look and feel more like applications
• giving web pages/plugins state & context information
  • e.g. "Which tab is making noise", "Am I focused"?
• offline web apps
• Prism Uplift

Removing Web Annoyances / Implementation Design

• pop under windows
• security UI
• status bar showing exactly which servers are being contacted instead of just saying "fetching images" or whatever

Performance

• actual performance on common tasks (start, navigate, save)
• perceived performance
  • animations (incl. tab tearoff, find in page)
  • scrolling models
  • speculative parsing

Look of the Browser

• OS specific / native
• move away from CERN era design

Getting out of the user's way

• reduce modal dialogs (esp. at open and close)
  • moving notifications to smaller, more sublte approaches
• reduce questions that users can't answer
• assume the middle step where possible (eg: back to a redirect page)

Extensibility

• clean up and simplification
  • themes
  • add-ons