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Jul 10

Tabs haven’t killed the back button in browser behavior

Category: HCI, Mozilla | 3 Comments

The latest TestPilot analysis shows the predominance of the back button in browser control usage, garnering 2/3 of clicks by user in the browser chrome. The observation that the back button is the most used browser control is longstanding, here’s a view from a ‘06 post excerpting the ACM WWW ‘06 best student paper [...]

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Jun 10

Tabbed Browsing and Search Behavior

Category: HCI, Mozilla, Search | 1 Comment

The latest Mozilla TestPilot study to publish data is the Tab Switch Study evolving the logging stream from the Tab Open Close study. Less robust tab usage data is also available in the first week in the life data drop.
In addition to improvements to logging to allow individual tabs to be tracked accurately as [...]