Firefox Tab Candy – New innovative OS like interface is really fascinating

by Muzzammil Waheed on July 29, 2010

Latest Firefox innovation called Tab Candy will make Firefox act more like a operating system, with much-improved multitasking and sharing capabilities. This feature will put Firefox in front of Google Chrome browser in term of usability, since it allows viewing of tabs into groups on a desktop like canvas.

Aza Raskin, the creator of Tab Candy, has perfectly articulated the workflow and tab overload problem in today’s modern Web browsers, and his Tab Candy vision of innovating the browser experience would be a major step forward. Check out the video demo below. It is interesting to know that Tab Candy is being developed entirely in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

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Features of Tab Candy:
  • Allows tab organization into groups that you can name and position on a desktop-like view like illustrated above.
  • Save tab groups to look at later
  • Have multiple profiles so that you can sign into the same site with different logins in two different tab groups
  • Search through your tabs and share tabs or tab groups between different computers and devices illustrated below.

    • firefox-tab-candy-sharing

  • 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
    • Check out a video demo of Tab Candy below:

    Mozilla in announcement of Firefox 4 in May listed Tab Candy in light gray at the bottom of its list of new features. However,there is hope that this innovative feature will be available in upcoming releases of FireFox. and if you can’t wait till official release Download special Firefox build that includes Tab Candy.

    Check out AZA Raskin blog post about tab candy or  view Tab Candy project page

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