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After Losing much of its usage share to Chrome in the last year, Firefox is going for A new OS-like interface. Making the browser work more like an operating system with improved Multitasking and sharing capabilities.

One of these innovations would be ‘Tab Candy’, which will allow you to:

• Organize tabs into groups that you can name and position on a desktop-like view.
• Save tab groups to look at later
• Search through your tabs
• Have multiple profiles so that you can sign into the same site with different logins in two different tab groups
• Share tabs or tab groups between different computers and devices
• Share tabs or tab groups with other users
• Set up a shared tab group where several users can co-browse and see what each other is looking at on the screen
• Choose colors or image backgrounds to distinguish different tab groups

“How many of us keep tabs open as reminders of something we want to do or read later? We’re all suffering from infoguilt. We need a way to organize browsing, to see all of our tabs at once, and focus on the task at hand.”

This is a 7 minute demo by Aza Raskin:

This innovation will take some time to develop. As mentioned in the video, users will surely go up to 100 opened browser tabs which obviously would cause the browser to overload. But as Google’s Chrome is ‘stealing’ much of Firefox’s users and the two browsers are too much alike at the moment, this would have to be Mozilla’s top priority.

Sources:

- Mozilla
- Zdnet

Try the firefox build that includes Tab Candy

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