Firefox Mockup

This is my entry for the Summer 09 Firefox challenge to find a better way to use tabs.

http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/index.html

I feel a browser needs to open full screen by default and tabs need to be image previews and this is what I came up with. The tab wheel allows you to use the mouse wheel to quickly scroll around to the previews on the other side of the screen. A larger wheel would take up less real estate and give you more room, but you get the idea.
When you hover over a preview, any children of that preview will appear on a separate wheel which can be stripped off and put along the bottom.
Right clicking on the previews, highlights them and then a management icon pops out for you to do things like delete, stack, email, print and even split screen the selected preview pages.

I'd be interested in your opinion. Thanks.

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Science & Technology

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• browser
• test
• idea
• firefox
• challenge
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• wheel
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• opinion

[kenhes]

The annotations aren't working very well for me....In the last part it says:

If we right click on previews, they're highlighted for managing.

The management console comes out when a preview is highlighted. See in the description what the icons do.