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Overview

Description: Why is it that you can remember where the knives are in your kitchen, which has hundreds of things, but have difficulty remember where a particular tab is? TabCandy is a project that helps users deal with the complex ways the modern web is used by providing spatial, touchable groups of tabs and tab groups.

The Pitch

Coming soon

Have removed jQuery dependency, working now on integration with trunk. See Bug 572889.

Tabs don’t scale.
It’s time consuming to switch between tabs.
We work in semantic groups; our browser don’t.
Our tabs have no understanding of search. Only basic understanding of “apps”.
Bookmarks are to heavy, tabs are too light. No metaphors for saving/sharing/viewing what we are seeing.
No incentive to clean up.
We spend 76% of time on first & last tab.

Make switching between tabs easier
Make grouping, saving, and managing tabs easier
Productivity when you increase monitor size goes up by ~30% (recognition+spatial memory), bring this efficiency gain and ease of mind to tabs.

Whole-sale replacement of tabs (by default)
Slowing down tab switching (with gratuitous animations, etc)
Being an alt-tab replacement
Trying to encompass all of Ubiquity's use cases. Only interested in navigation and information retrieval.

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 = Design =
 * More detailed designs coming soon
+* Some [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tabbed_Browsing/User_Interface_Design/Possible_Features#Scenario_for_Use:_Collecting_Research_for_a_Paper corollary design] from a couple years ago
 * See the [http://www.slideshare.net/guestab5fefd/tab-candy-presentation-short presentation].
 http://img.skitch.com/20100226-r17g931yh7959abc9ie7cr5t6e.png
 http://img.skitch.com/20100226-jpirgqa5spbj6k94qw228uc5t9.png
+http://people.mozilla.com/~jboriss/wiki/tabs/10.png
 = Prototype =