Edward Lee
The Prospector team explores ideas about using locally analyzed Firefox data to improve browsing experience such as navigation aids with highlighted interests and Firefox-facilitated sharing of summarized data to websites. Continue reading
Edward Lee
The Prospector team has a proof-of-concept experiment about:profile, which analyzes data stored locally to an instance of Firefox, to start a conversation about different ways to analyze the data with the goal of improving Firefox while supporting Mozilla’s principles of openness and user privacy. Continue reading
Edward Lee
OneLiner takes a different approach from LessChrome HD to achieve the same goal of giving as much space to the web page. The Firefox interface now takes up less space by moving what used to be on two lines into … Continue reading
Edward Lee
Please download Firefox 4 to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (0:52) download: webm (6mb) and ogv (5mb) Transcript: As part of the Prospector exploration, Twitter has worked with us to develop a new Firefox add-on, Twitter Address Bar Search, … Continue reading
Edward Lee
Please download Firefox 4 to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (0:50) downloads: webm (7mb) and ogv (4mb) Transcript: AwesomeBar HD provides categories in the location bar to help me find exactly what I want. Instead of having to first … Continue reading
Edward Lee
The Prospector team has been busy collecting user feedback and conducting user studies to see how people discover and use AwesomeBar HD. The team has also been busy releasing new versions in response to the findings — at one point, … Continue reading
Edward Lee
It’s barely been one week since releasing AwesomeBar HD, and since then there’s been a lot of great feedback through the forums and user testing. We’re now on version 5, and there definitely will be more in the future to … Continue reading
Edward Lee
For those looking to try out AwesomeBar HD but are concerned about it being a click-focused interface, the Prospector team is glad to help you get more use out of the new location bar. First off, a number of existing … Continue reading
Edward Lee
Please download Firefox 4 to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (1:30) download: webm (17mb) Transcript: AwesomeBar HD spins-off from the Home Dash project to focus experiments on a combined location and search bar with a Mozilla twist. This means … Continue reading
Edward Lee
Please download the latest Firefox 4 to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (1:37) downloads: webm (14mb) and ogv (10mb) Transcript: I just installed Firefox 4 on a new machine. Normally I would use Sync to get all my history, … Continue reading