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
Dan Mosedale
Thanks to several excellent contributors and up-and-coming web technologies (most critically Rainbow and popcorn.js), it’s now possible to record yourself singing along to a fine accordion rendition of “Amazing Grace” by Jono Xia, a feat that would have once … Continue reading
Edward Lee
The Prospector team has gotten a lot of useful feedback about the recently added Home Dash menu, which provides one-click access to the Back button and other navigation. One common complaint is that these controls that temporarily appear and somewhat … Continue reading
Edward Lee
Now that Home Dash helps you get to where you want as efficiently as possible (with just one keystroke!), the Prospector team has been focusing on fixing up common issues people run into when using Home Dash. Here’s a few … 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
Edward Lee
Many teams are busy making sure Firefox 4 is a great experience on both desktop and mobile as we get ready for the release candidate. To highlight just one, the Sync team has recently put in extra effort to make … Continue reading
Edward Lee
Please download the latest Firefox 4 Beta to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (1:05) downloads: webm (15mb) and ogv (9mb) Transcript: Home Dash is the newest Prospector experiment to improve search and content discovery in Firefox. It removes all … Continue reading