1. Prospector
Abhinav Sharma | Mozilla Labs

2. Look, Its Me!
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

3. Stuff I Worked On
RecallMonkey Predictive Newtab Tab Focus

4. 1 | Recall Monkey

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

6. vs
What can Firefox do that Google can’t?

7. History Search has Problems
Exact match search - ranking impossible
Four Clicks to Access
Can’t filter out or prioritize sites
“Unnatural” search UI

8. Lets Fix That!
Instant Access | tf-idf Ranking | Prioritize + Filter

9. 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

10. 2 | Predictive Newtab

17. A Tale of Two Algorithms
Search with RecallMonkey Track the User’s Behavior
Track what websites the user views
Gather keywords from open tabs
together
POS Filter + Search Look at last open tab
Heuristically Filter results Look back into the tracking data

18. So Which One Works?
Search
SFGate
Stackoverflow
Zappos
Tracking CollegeHumor
Google
Facebook
Amazon
Mixing these two is hard. We’re doing a Test Pilot study.

19. 3 | Tab Focus
Making Panorama More Useful...
Organization needs discipline
But its too late before we realize it
Let the computer do it for me...

20. =

22. Work In Progress
How does our brain cluster tabs?
The browsing tree is the safest way.
- Domain Names
- Keywords (the “Google problem”)
- Track tab Switching

23. Snaporama?

24. Thank You!
Questions?