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Firefox includes a lot of very powerful/great shortcut/cool user interface features which are not immediately obvious. A great many of these are only discovered through other users who already know about them, while others are found entirely by accident. For example, did you know that Google's Suggestion list will include the result of calculations as the first item? Try typing "3 feet in cm" into the Google search bar. Or did you know that you can double-click on empty tabstrip space to make a new tab? Or drag and drop tabs to re-order them? Or scroll in the tabstrip with your mouse's scroll wheel? | Firefox includes a lot of very powerful/great shortcut/cool user interface features which are not immediately obvious. A great many of these are only discovered through other users who already know about them, while others are found entirely by accident. For example, did you know that Google's Suggestion list will include the result of calculations as the first item? Try typing "3 feet in cm" into the Google search bar. Or did you know that you can double-click on empty tabstrip space to make a new tab? Or drag and drop tabs to re-order them? Or scroll in the tabstrip with your mouse's scroll wheel? | ||
== Agenda == | == Agenda and Session Notes == | ||
=== Part 1: Strategies for exposing hidden features | === Part 1: Strategies for exposing hidden features === | ||
* Changing UI for experience level | * Changing UI for experience level | ||
** Office 12 Ribbon | ** Office 12 Ribbon | ||
* Tutorials | * Tutorials | ||
* Context help | * Context help | ||
* Tooltips | * Tooltips/Balloon Help | ||
* Firefox University/Top 10 "Bet you didn't know" tips | * Firefox University/Top 10 "Bet you didn't know" tips | ||
** Voting on which tips are most useful (Digg like) | ** Voting on which tips are most useful (Digg like) | ||
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** Help Menu > Tell Me Something I Don't know... | ** Help Menu > Tell Me Something I Don't know... | ||
** Extend API for addon developers to add tips for their extension | ** Extend API for addon developers to add tips for their extension | ||
* Mouse cursor feedback (changing cursor when over different areas of the UI) | |||
* Basic mode, advanced mode | |||
* When you do the long way of doing something, show a tip with the short way in it. | |||
* A list of updated key bindings including Addons. | |||
=== Part 2: What are the hidden features? | === Part 2: What are the hidden features? === | ||
* Tabstrip | * Tabstrip | ||
** Double-click on tabstrip for new tab | ** Double-click on tabstrip for new tab | ||
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** Adding search engines | ** Adding search engines | ||
=== Part 3: Application | === Part 3: Application === | ||
* Which hidden features should be more exposed? | * Which hidden features should be more exposed? | ||