"Home Dash is the newest Prospector experiment to improve search and content discovery in Firefox. It removes all the standard web browser interface like the location bar, search bar and tabs; and leaves behind just a Firefox logo that is used to bring up a dashboard. […] While still far from it’s end goal, this was the original idea of making a browse-based browser (as opposed to a search-based one)."
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From Mozilla Labs: Towards Browse-Based Browsing with Home Dash.
This kind of interface is starting to make a lot of sense. I remember that back in the late 90s, Internet was something exceptional, and you were not connected most of the time, so the location bar, and later searching, was a very important aspect of the experience.
But today things are different. I think I’m using 8 or may be 10 sites every day (plus lots of feeds, but that’s outside the browser), and searching it’s not the center of my experience.
If searching is the exception, why I’m using a search based browser?
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