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|Feature overview=One of our User-Experience goals for mobile Firefox is to decrease the user's time-to-task. One of the things that currently makes mobile native apps compelling, compared to website/app use in a browser, is that, when you decide you want to use a particular app, your workflow to get started is the following:
|Feature overview=One of our User-Experience goals for mobile Firefox is to decrease the user's time-to-task. One of the things that currently makes mobile native apps compelling, compared to website/app use in a browser, is that, when you decide you want to use a particular app, your workflow to get started is the following:
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# tap on the icon for the browser
# tap on the icon for the browser
# find the site you want, which can take one of these forms:
## bookmark taskflow
## bookmark taskflow
### open bookmarks list
### open bookmarks list
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The following are two variants of the simplest possible Firefox widget, depending on whether we could tie in voice control.
The following are two variants of the simplest possible Firefox widget, depending on whether we could tie in voice control.


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6196406060/" title="simiple widget variants by madhava_work, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6196406060_12cb5632a0_o.jpg" width="676" height="800" alt="simiple widget variants"></a>
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6196406060/ http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6196406060_12cb5632a0_o.jpg]


A further possibility is that the widget could be host to icons for sites that the user has designated as apps in Firefox on the phone and/or on other machines (they'd show up here via sync, in that case). This set could also include icons for installed web apps, if we don't want to put those directly on the desktop.


A further possibility is that the widget could be host to icons for sites that the user has designated as apps in Firefox on the phone and/or on other machines (they'd show up here via sync, in that case). This set could also include icons for installed web apps, if we don't want to put those directly on the desktop.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6195895695/ http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/6195895695_afb0e47959_o.jpg]
 
The following in the task flow for using the minimal version of the widget. In all cases, including the variant with app icons, tapping on a link to the web will bring up the tapped site in Firefox.


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6195895695/" title="widget with app tabs by madhava_work, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/6195895695_afb0e47959_o.jpg" width="650" height="800" alt="widget with app tabs"></a>
[mockup goes on for a bit horizontally >> ]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6196409282/ http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6196409282_90640ae20d_b.jpg]




The following in the task flow for using the minimal version of the widget. In all cases, including the variant with app icons, tapping on a link to the web will bring up the tapped site in Firefox.
=== tablet variant ===


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6196409282/" title="skitch45bDRW by madhava_work, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6196409282_d12a220614_o.jpg" width="1675" height="818" alt="skitch45bDRW"></a>
* TDB!
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