In most major browsers, when you open a new tab, you encounter a “speed dial” – a list of web sites you frequently visit. We’ve written a new Prospector experiment, Predictive Newtab, to explore the idea of supplementing the fixed … Continue reading
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
Please download Firefox 4 to watch the WebM video. Full-size video (0:52) download: webm (8mb) and ogv (5mb) Transcript: LessChrome HD follows AwesomeBar HD in taking ideas from Home Dash and packaging them into a focused experiment. The core feature … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
