Firefox 4 Gets Sweeter in Beta 4 With Tab Candy

August 26, 2010

Mozilla developers are out this week with the latest major update of the Firefox 4 Web browser. With the beta 4 version, Firefox 4 integrates two new key features into the open source browser, providing a new way to organize tabs and synchronize browser activities.

The new tab features come by way of a Mozilla project known as Tab Candy, which enables users to group and organize sets of tabs together. In Firefox 4, Tab Candy has been rebranded as Firefox Panorama as it heads for public release.

"'Tab Candy' is the internal name for the development project, and we expect that it will continue to function as such," Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox, told InternetNews.com. "It's not really expressive for a consumer audience, though, so we selected a name that helps people understand that the feature gives them a panoramic view of their tabs."

Aza Raskin, the Mozilla developer who created the Tab Candy project, described the feature in a blog post as a way for users to see all their tabs and to quickly locate and switch between them.

"Tab Candy also lets you group tabs to organize your work flow. You can create a group for your vacation, work, recipes, games and social sites -- however it makes sense to you to group tabs," Raskin wrote. "When you switch to a grouped tab only the relevant tabs are shown in the tab bar, which helps you focus on what you want." ...

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Source: datamation.com