Mozilla Moving Away From Tabs

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

Mozilla the company behind Firefox thinks that the tabbed interface it’s so famous for is reaching the end of it’s lifespan. So they’re launching a design competition to come up with the next big thing in browsers.

Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin Internet, where ten browser sessions were “many browser sessions”. Today, 20+ parallel sessions are quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive.
— Mozilla Labs

One interesting idea is already floating around from Mozilla Labs, having the tabs on the side instead of the top.

Source: PCPro

About Jeremy Clark

Small town IT worker with interests in all things technological and technical. Biggest interests are in web development especially the WordPress publishing platform and the community supporting it. Currently developing and maintain the free WordPress theme Techozoic. I'm also always available for hire.
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One Response to "Mozilla Moving Away From Tabs"

  • By Mike September 9, 2009 - 2:26 am

    Wow, If they ever implement a sidebar style tab system that will be the end of my love affair with firefox and I will most likely move on to chrome or opera. Only to come back to view sites I’m am currently working on and reminisce about the love I once had and lost..