Only the cavemen know nothing about a tab browsing experience! We all know how useful a tab is for a browser, but sometimes tab browsing can be abused to a level of unusable! For an example, when a person opens up about 30 tabs or more, each tab for each website, the meaning of way too many tabs becomes real. Trying to get from tab number 1 to tab number 30 is not hard, but do you know which tab you want in those 30 tabs? Accidentally closing a tab is not an amusing thing too, and you can blame that on too many tabs or your fast finger. Simply put, tab browsing is amazing, but it’s a mature technology! I could be wrong and you can correct me if you want of what I’m about to say next; Firefox was the very first browser that featured tab browsing, and it has been years ago? It’s time for tab browsing experience to evolve! This is where Tab Candy comes in!
Tab Candy is still in a developmental phrase, they call it an alpha phrase. After more testing, an alpha phrase can become a beta phrase. After a beta phrase comes a release phrase where a software can be really stable!
Anyway, why Tab Candy is so cool? Tab Candy has a grand vision for tab browsing. Tab Candy is trying to allow browser users to group tabs in spatial way that you can say very eye candy. Eye candy is not enough for Tab Candy, because it’s also useful as in allowing browser users to open more than 100 tabs without getting the too many tabs syndrome. Each tab group has the capability of allowing browser users to add even more tabs. How about searching for a specific tab in a group, or in all groups? Tab Candy has a search box where you can search for a specific tab, a group, and so on. Social and sharing elements are available with Tab Candy — it allows you to send a tab group to your mobile devices, and sharing a tab or tab groups with friends.
So much more can be done with Tab Candy! Why not watch the video after the break for a visual understanding of how Tab Candy actually works. Let me know what you think about Tab Candy in the comment section. Source.
An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Vinh Nguyen
