{"id":1595,"date":"2009-04-13T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2009-04-13T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:15:17","slug":"firefox-new-tab-visual-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/04\/firefox-new-tab-visual-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox New Tab: Visual Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All has been quiet on the new tab front for the last couple of weeks. We&#8217;ve been up to two things in the process of getting the new tab ready for potential uplift into Firefox. The first is we&#8217;ve been working on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Sprints\/About:newtab#Add-on_Development\">an overview<\/a> of how the add-on was designed including performance and security. If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to get a guided tour of how something like the new tab is implemented, check it out. The second thing we&#8217;ve been working on is finding a visual style that blends in with Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the horizontal styling of the thumbnails in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cstone09\/3389972367\/\">Chris Stone&#8217;s<\/a> answer to the call for participation, we&#8217;ve got some new designs that incorporate the learnings from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azarask.in\/blog\/post\/firefox-new-tab-in-line-search\/\">last 36 revisions<\/a> while finally making it feel much more Firefox-y. Unfortunately, we haven&#8217;t implemented the new style yet so for the time being, it&#8217;s see only.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/azaraskin\/3439720268\/\"><img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/azaraskin\/3438907857\/\"><img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By using a horizontal thumbnail clipped from the top of a page, we are capturing the site&#8217;s logo and masthead &mdash; the most visually distinctive aspect of a web page. By default only the top two visited sites get a visual treatment (to remove visual clutter), but more can be turned on by clicking the little edit icon. We&#8217;ve gone to a two-column format to better use the available space. If you have an extra wide monitor, you may get more columns.<\/p>\n<p>All of the features from before are there, like in-line search and automatic RSS. It&#8217;s just all cleaned up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Edi Lee, Sean Martell, and Aza Raskin from the New Tabs Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All has been quiet on the new tab front for the last couple of weeks. We&#8217;ve been up to two things in the process of getting the new tab ready for potential uplift into Firefox. The first is we&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/04\/firefox-new-tab-visual-update\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4863,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}