Browser-Design Experiments

A series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser.

Five of my browser-design experiments (below)

I’ve been experimenting with redesigning the Web browser for a while, creating various designs and mockups over the years. This a series about those ideas.

In these designs, there are several questions and design problems I was trying to solve: How do we prevent the problem of ‘too many tabs’? How do we design a zoomable interface around the Web? How do we design an entire operating system around the Web?

1. Firefox ZUI (2010)

Reimagining the browser as a zoomable tree of pages.

2. Ubiquitous Firefox, Part 1: How Do You Design a Debris-Less Browser? (Mozilla Labs, 2011)

Replacing Browser chrome with a natural-language interface.

3. Ubiquitous Firefox, Part 2: Solving Tab Proliferation (Mozilla Labs, 2011)

Merging tab history with the scrollbar.

4. “Ubiquitous Firefox” Revisited (2012)

Building a zoomable Web operating system.

5. Tab-Free Browser (2017)

An interactive demo of a zoomable Web browser.

6. Flow Browser (2019)

Flow Browser