Comments on: Mozilla Labs Plays With Circle Of Sites Design To Fill Blank New Tabs

By: Make Your Firefox Browser Look Better With Mozilla Labs’ Latest Skins

Make Your Firefox Browser Look Better With Mozilla Labs’ Latest Skins — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:51 +0000

[...] browser according to their mood, but somehow the announcement made me cringe a little (much like this Labs experiment did). I would rather see Mozilla focus on improving the speed and usability of its browser than [...]

By: hawk88

hawk88 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:27:36 +0000

FastDial is an addon for FF that does a similar thing.

It creates a folder in your bookmarks, you fill it with links, set the grid size and new tabs open a fast dial page. Only difference is it previews the page, which is kind of cluttered.

By: nigelg

nigelg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:22:05 +0000

It’s no different to Chrome’s effort but it’s a nice addition all the same. Why only 8 though? Something could be done with the time spent on pages effecting the size of the circles.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:54:06 +0000

Whilst I agree with you in principle, don’t forget that the people working on this may not have the technical ability to be able to work on those issues.

If they don’t (and I agree that this is a big “if”) then working on this won’t make any difference to addressing the concerns you have.

By: Iflexion

Iflexion — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:54:16 +0000

It’s the same feature as I see every day in Google. I don’t know what I pressed in my settings but when I open Google it gives me a table of 9 websites of my latest visit.

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By: Jules Morgan

Jules Morgan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:50:07 +0000

As usual, something which Opera resolved way ahead of the pack, yet which some other browser will end up getting credit for being the first to do.

They’ll never get the credit they deserve if they remain on 1% market share though.

By: venkat

venkat — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:13:19 +0000

Like Google Chrome ,Mozilla too trying to bring something new tab page like most visited sites to Firefox,I think they have to improve mFirefox ’s speed ,it is very slow now a days and crashing.

By: Typhoon

Typhoon — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:36:26 +0000

I think it have ‘played’ pretty much good with ‘Speed’ but yes I agree that they have to work on Memory Usage problem.

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By: Drooling

Drooling — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:48:56 +0000

Forgot to mention Kompose in KDE and slide sorter view in OO Impress. Ummm….. mouse gestures?

By: Drooling

Drooling — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:44:38 +0000

Now that is sexy!
Would the wizards of Moz also take a look at the “ATOM interface, DERI” ?
I doubt the DERI guys will use patents to prevent Mozilla from using such an impressive enhancement in usability. But you can never say, since the greenback is indeed known to seduce many. Also there is prior art (it could be hidden in the most obscure of publications and revealed all of a sudden…) and competing patents. One thing about patents is that, AFAIK, they do not apply to registered non-profits. (troll)
The ATOM interface is awesome indeed.
Oh yes, i forgot … FINALLY!

By: zen

zen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:35:27 +0000

I don’t know how many years the other browsers had this already – using the new tab blank page for accessing history, top sites, etc. Even IE8 have this now. Yes, it’s new for Firefox, but not innovative.

Regular users just want links on the blank page to be clearly laid out and easy to navigate. This circle of top sites, etc. it’s not even intuitive. Mozilla/Firefox – You did a good job with the Awesome Bar, so let’s cut the fancy design and get back to providing real value.

By: aj

aj — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:11:10 +0000

Google toolbar does this on firefox. It gives list of recently closed tabs as well.

By: EngineLocator.com

EngineLocator.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:05:15 +0000

agreed. open social in the cloud at its finest.

By: Mozilla Labsが、新規タブの空白を埋めるサイトの輪を実験中

Mozilla Labsが、新規タブの空白を埋めるサイトの輪を実験中 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:43:27 +0000

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By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:38:10 +0000

Safari do this already and I love it, if only the new safari would stop crashing I would use it more often.

By: Yawner

Yawner — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:13:20 +0000

Safari 4 beats chrome, opera and firefox in start page design.

Download it and take a look, you’ll see the bar has been raised a lot.

By: Mohammad Afaq

Mohammad Afaq — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:33:07 +0000

It is a good post and I really agree with Peter (first comment) that mozilla is should concentrate more on speed rather than fancy stuff and if they don't then chrome will take over because with faster internet connections Chrome works lighting fast. Mohammad Afaq Free Website Traffic

By: tony of the weeg clan

tony of the weeg clan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:26:20 +0000

how is this any different than chrome’s pseudo home page speed dial thingie? not that innovative i must say.

By: Einar

Einar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:11:33 +0000

Mozilla’s version of Opera’s Speed Dial?

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:05:43 +0000

I wish that Mozilla labs would ‘play’ with speeding up the browser and reducing the memory bloat, and this is coming from someone that doesn’t even use any extensions.