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+By adding animation to the process of rearranging items,  not only will Firefox feel more lightweight and adaptable, but it will be more visually clear what the user is manipulating and how the UI will be changed by letting go.  For instance, animations of tabs being arranged is essentially live preview of tab rearrangement: if a tab is slid to the right and an animation shows it doing so, releasing it only makes permanent what is being shown.  This is similar to the tab animation motion currently in Safari and Chrome.
+[[File:Tab_rearranging_animation.png]]
+Because tab tearoff and tab rearrangement would utilize similar mouse movement, some thresholds should be added to prevent users from accidentally performing the wrong action.  A “soft snap” could make tabs within a region of the tab bar slide, and falling outside that region causes them to tear off.
+Slight animation could also give newly created tabs the feeling of organic growth into the browser.
 [[File:New tab animation.png]]
 [[File:Tab close animation.png]]