Experimental Firefox Add-On: Desktop

[sarcasticsteve]

I have to say, this is probably one of the most exciting experimental Firefox Add Ons I have seen in a while.  It changes your new tab page to what basically amounts to a customizable "desktop" of sorts that you can add clickable thumbnails of sites of your choosing, search boxes, or even folders from your computer.  All objects are resizable and drag-and-drop friendly to set things so you are most comfortable with it.  You can even change the background picture to your liking (notice my Chrono Trigger one in screenshot).  It is a handy little add on, and I pray Mozilla uses something like it in the 3.5 release, else I may just have to supplement whatever they have with this. 

Screenshot:



Screencast:
http://v.wordpress.com/oQyfooZb

Download:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11781

Enjoy!

-Steve

[Fail Medic]

This is a natural evolution to all those add-ons that give you thumbnails of what you've got on current tabs, eh?

The resizing and total customization excites me.  Thanks for linking it!

[CaffeinePowered]

ZEAL

[HeK]

Didn't Opera have this... like two years ago?

[Blues]

Didn't Opera have this... like two years ago?

Even CrazyBrowser had it years ago, I had just naturally assumed Firefox had it too.

[ScottyGrayskull]

If that water just keeps tumbling off the edge of the island at that rate... wouldn't it eventually run out? How are they maintaining it?

[Dave]

i do not understand what this does

[Blues]

i do not understand what this does

Remember AOL? Basically you can put your tabs into a window similar to that style, with some extra features.

[Dave]

[quote author=Dave link=topic=2884.msg83145#msg83145 date=1242501702]
i do not understand what this does

Remember AOL? Basically you can put your tabs into a window similar to that style, with some extra features.
[/quote]

thanks.

[sarcasticsteve]

i do not understand what this does

Basically you can use your new tab page as a kind of desktop.  You can create hyperlinks to some of your most common pages, and arrange things according to your own style

[Fail Medic]

If that water just keeps tumbling off the edge of the island at that rate... wouldn't it eventually run out? How are they maintaining it?

(dead serious straight-face)  Magic. 

Or mebbe water is a fuel-cell-like byproduct of the Mammon Machine turning Lavos's wet dreams into electricity.



... So anyway, I wish the thumbnails were interactive browsers instead of just thumbnails.

[sarcasticsteve]

[quote author=ScottyGrayskull link=topic=2884.msg83088#msg83088 date=1242492561]
If that water just keeps tumbling off the edge of the island at that rate... wouldn't it eventually run out? How are they maintaining it?

(dead serious straight-face)  Magic. 

Or mebbe water is a fuel-cell-like byproduct of the Mammon Machine turning Lavos's wet dreams into electricity.



... So anyway, I wish the thumbnails were interactive browsers instead of just thumbnails.
[/quote]

Well that would require a lot more memory then what they are looking to work within I think.  Remember this is just one extension, and an extension doesn't get popular by bloating you down.

[Fail Medic]

Well that would require a lot more memory then what they are looking to work within I think.  Remember this is just one extension, and an extension doesn't get popular by bloating you down.

Really?  What's the difference between having five Firefox tabs open and five interactive thumbnails?  Okay, yeah, I could see complex visuals like a bunch of Flash ads bogging you down, but (and I'm naive on this) doesn't Firefox have to maintain the HTML, clickable link targets, all the whosits and whatsits of a webpage in RAM during multi-tab browsing anyway?  Or does it forget about everything but the active tab?

[sarcasticsteve]

Well FF has itself always been known as a bit of a memory hog, but constantly updating another five thumbnails for live views seems like it'd just bog down too much.

[Fail Medic]

Okay well I will try to make do, then...

BY BROWSING INTERNETS IN TOP SECRET SUPERSONIC MILITARY HELICOPTER "AIRWOLF"

[at0m]

So, like chrome's new tab page, basically.

[Geoff]

So, like chrome's new tab page, basically.

But you can move them around and put a background.  But yeah, basically.

[Fail Medic]

[quote author=at0m link=topic=2884.msg83407#msg83407 date=1242580211]
So, like chrome's new tab page, basically.

But you can move them around and put a background.  But yeah, basically.
[/quote]

and shoot copperhead missiles at shitty sites and they blow up