A new tab in Firefox

Until now, when we open a new tab in Firefox is empty, no longer something that happens with Google Chrome and Opera, which incorporate certain shortcuts or functions such as quick access to bookmarks or history.It is true that there are some extensions that mimic this behavior in Firefox as Fast Dial, whether we have the new tab style Chrome in Firefox, but the idea is that either the browser and extend this idea by adding new features.

For this people Mozilla Labs has been working on a prototype extension called New Tab Page, and although it is a very early version and you can see some interesting features.

  Andalusia install and open a new tab to access a list of most frequently visited sites, which keeps changing as we visit sites:

 The design is something we have to keep working, but in terms of functions, we can move the list items to taste, remove and set the number of links to display the feed from each site.

Another thing is that you see when you close a tab and reopen a new one, gives us the option to restore the last closed tab, as shown below:

In the lower left corner we have a little icon to click if we can change the view of the page thumbnails:

There are other features, such as contextual search, which I have not seen the time to test the extension but that may be in this video demonstration.It is also interesting to see this article where he has worked on possible designs for the new tab.The idea is that simple and that behaves in an intelligent manner without the user settings.

To test the extension you need a beta of Firefox 3.1 you can see this link and then install the extension.If you want to collaborate with the project can comment on the Mozilla Labs post, where there is open discussion on the topic.