ProspectorAbhinav Sharma | Mozilla Labs

CS / HCI Senior at Carnegie Mellon

I worked on Prospector projects

My mentor was Ed Lee (Mardak)

I made stuff I wanted to see in Firefox

Look, Its Me!

Stuff I Worked On

RecallMonkey Tab FocusPredictive Newtab

1 | Recall Monkey

“What was that awesome page I found the other day?”

What can Firefox do that Google can’t?

vs

Exact match search - ranking impossible

Four Clicks to Access

Can’t filter out or prioritize sites

“Unnatural” search UI

History Search has Problems

Lets Fix That!

Instant Access | tf-idf Ranking | Prioritize + Filter

AwesomeBar Recall Monkey

Quickly jump to popular websites Dig deep to find obscure things

Ranked by frecency Ranked by text match (Okapi BM25)

Limited result set All matching results

No filters Filters

Implicit, frequently used Explicit, less common usage

2 | Predictive Newtab

Search with RecallMonkey Track the User’s Behavior

Gather keywords from open tabs Track what websites the user views together

POS Filter + Search Look at last open tab

Heuristically Filter results Look back into the tracking data

A Tale of Two Algorithms

So Which One Works?

GoogleFacebookAmazon

SFGateStackoverflowZapposCollegeHumorTracking

Search

Mixing these two is hard. We’re doing a Test Pilot study.

Making Panorama More Useful...

Organization needs discipline

But its too late before we realize it

Let the computer do it for me...

3 | Tab Focus

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How does our brain cluster tabs?

The browsing tree is the safest way.

- Domain Names

- Keywords (the “Google problem”)

- Track tab Switching

Work In Progress

Snaporama?

Thank You!Questions?