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For several years now, people have been aware of the ‘too many tabs’ problem in Firefox (and other browsers). I first started thinking about possible solutions when the issue was discussed on the [http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/06/19/humanized_puzzler_2_firefox_tabs/ <span title="Humanized Puzzler #2: Firefox Tabs, by Aza Raskin">Humanized weblog</span>]. Many insightful comments were made there, but the following solution did not hit me until a reference was made to [http://xkcd.com/214/ <span title="‘The Problem with Wikipedia’">a certain XKCD strip</span>] (pictured at right). It then hit me that XKCD did better job of visualizing the user’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model <span title="Mental model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">mental model</span>] than most browsers were doing. If Firefox were redesigned as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface <abbr title="Zooming User Interface">ZUI</abbr>] (''à la'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20070917014251/rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Demos#The_Zooming_User_Interface_Demo <span title="Demos - Raskin Center › The Zooming User Interface Demo">this demo</span>]), there would be a mode direct mapping of the mental model to the interface while the ‘too many tabs’ problem would be solved as well. | For several years now, people have been aware of the ‘too many tabs’ problem in Firefox (and other browsers). I first started thinking about possible solutions when the issue was discussed on the [http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/06/19/humanized_puzzler_2_firefox_tabs/ <span title="Humanized Puzzler #2: Firefox Tabs, by Aza Raskin">Humanized weblog</span>]. Many insightful comments were made there, but the following solution did not hit me until a reference was made to [http://xkcd.com/214/ <span title="‘The Problem with Wikipedia’">a certain XKCD strip</span>] (pictured at right). It then hit me that XKCD did better job of visualizing the user’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model <span title="Mental model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">mental model</span>] than most browsers were doing. If Firefox were redesigned as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface <abbr title="Zooming User Interface">ZUI</abbr>] (''à la'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20070917014251/rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Demos#The_Zooming_User_Interface_Demo <span title="Demos - Raskin Center › The Zooming User Interface Demo">this demo</span>]), there would be a mode direct mapping of the mental model to the interface while the ‘too many tabs’ problem would be solved as well. | ||
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==A Solution: ZUIs== | == A Solution: ZUIs == | ||
The following is a partial mock-up of how the browsing session depicted by XKCD could appear in a ZUI. | The following is a partial mock-up of how the browsing session depicted by XKCD could appear in a ZUI. | ||