Title Improvements to the Camino tabbed browsing experience
Student Desmond Elliott
Mentor Mike Pinkerton
Abstract
The Camino browser currently attempts to position itself as the safer, innovative, open-source alternative to Apple's bundled Safari web browser.

Mozilla's software offerings have appealed to users for 2 reasons: they are built from the core to be as transparently secure as possible, and they provide a user experience that is innovative whilst retaining an achievable learning curve.

Draggable tabs have proven to be a desirable feature in both Colloquy and Adium; in Colloquy, draggable tabs make the IRC experience much more interactive than having static channel tabs. This is a feature that has been a filed bug for over four years. A request to extend this functionality to drag tabs between windows has been a filed bug for 6 months.

Closely related is a filed bug relating to how to deal with tab overflow. I propose to implement a ticker-bar style approach as discussed in the bug discussion. This enhancement to Camino would further the innovative user experience that Mozilla products have commanded to date.

My blog relating to the progress of the project - http://summerofcamino.blogspot.com/