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By: Harry Maugans - Technology, BMWs, and Business » Blog Archive » Changes to Firefox Tabs Coming

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:45:48 +0000

[...] former Firefox devleoper and now an employee of Google indicates that Google has been doing some usability testing on tabbed browsing.read more | digg story [...]

By: Chose Firefox!

Chose Firefox! — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:37:13 +0000

I think it’s great that Google is giving Firefox a much-needed push. After the initial hubbub things got pretty quiet with FF.

I’m sure Google have their own interests in mind for pimping Firefox, but I’m not sure what their ultimate plan is – they might even just be doing it to annoy MS!

By: Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:12:27 +0000

How is that supossed to work? Well man if your whole business is that people browse your stuff in their browsers, I guess that will make plenty of sense

># Clueso Says:
>November 7th, 2005 at 8:20 am

>>but perhaps they are buying >Firefox?

>Huh? Buying an OSS group… How >is that supposed to work

By: agile

agile — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:09:30 +0000

Firefox in salsa google

Si fa sempre più stretta la relazione fra Google e il browser di casa Mozilla.
Ben Goodger, ex sviluppatore di Mozilla passato di recente alla grande G, ha dichiarato che Google sta tenendo dei test di usabilità per migliorare l’esperienza di …

By: Yash

Yash — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:30:05 +0000

I think that instead of buying or developing competing products, Google is making an even smarter move.

I believe Google with its search engine lead, can know which open source or commercial alternatives are popular and viable.

Then, Google finds ways of offering value-added services to the software. At the same time, they leverage their adsense and affiliate leads, and they make the use of their internet services easier.

Google will continue to extend an enhance alternate products and take the lead with minimal investments this way.

Up to now though, I haven’t seen Google do the same with Developer tools but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

And if they do, I’d like them to contribute to Ruby and Ruby on Rails ;)

Yash

By: Stuntbox

Stuntbox — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:41:37 +0000

Tab Delimited

In a post on his Mozilla blog Ben Goodger discusses some of the UI research being done on tabbed browsing at Google, along with some solid proposals for streamlining tabs in Firefox.

This is great news because, as it stands now, the tab UI in Firef…

By: JtJin

JtJin — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:36:29 +0000

Some people use tabs to open multiple links from a cursory scan of a website before reading the linked articles for further info.

It would be mildly annoying to have the browser return to the parent tab if you want to read them one after the other instead.

By: A Shakouri

A Shakouri — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:41:22 +0000

Maybe google is tinkering with somehow adding tabbed browsing within google, and not dependent on the browser itself. It would be cool to have different google tabs open within without requiring a browser that supports tabbed browsing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:26:58 +0000

Firefox is not so innovative after all with its tabs. Ben Goodger says so. Take a look at one of his respones to a comment:

Posted by: Ben Goodger at November 4, 2005 08:59 AM

dflock – LOL. I just tested Opera 8.02 and you’re right. And we thought we were so clever for coming up with this heuristic. -_-;

By: Mousky

Mousky — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:07:47 +0000

And don’t forget that Google lets its employees spend some of their time on non-Google things. Seeing that Ben is still devoted to the development of Firefox, it seems that he decided to the use the resources available to him at Google to improve Firefox.

By: Mousky

Mousky — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:47:27 +0000

People are reading way too much into Ben’s post. The suggestion that caught my attention was the ability of Firefox returning to a parent tab when closing a child tab. And from Google’s point of view that makes sense. Naturally, Google wants users to return to the tab with the search results not another tab.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:30:40 +0000

Think of it like this. Linux became a purchasable software, despite its open-coded background. If Google does anything, it will likely strike that similar balance between using what’s already open sourse, leaving Firefox to its own devices, but only after it develops something similar. It’ll make things that can sell alongside MS and even Linux based on the work that the Firefox community has already done. It’s really the only way to keep both the general public, who require ease of use, and developers, who are generally inclined toward open source, interested in a company when the competition (Microsoft, Apple, even Linux) is so stiff. They just might not want to screw anyone in the process, that’s for sure.

By: extremely_volatile_ant

extremely_volatile_ant — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:17:34 +0000

I have to agree it would be VERY wise to take a decent MS competitor and give them money to essentially do what Google was going to do by itself eventually, while at the same time bringing those companies/services into the Google family.

By: Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:47:47 +0000

In theory I guess Google could buy the Mozilla trademark from Mozilla Corp. or whoever owns it; however they can’t buy the code.

By: Clueso

Clueso — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:20:03 +0000

>but perhaps they are buying Firefox?

Huh? Buying an OSS group… How is that supposed to work