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Neo Web Browser

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This is how the Neo Web Browser would work:

Picture 1 shows the start up screen, featuring the home page, in this case the home page of the operating system vendor. The moment the user starts dragging a link to the right, a horizontal tab bar would appear (Picture 2), allowing the user to drop the link onto it (Picture 3).

I could bring up the tab bar manually as well, either by moving the mouse cursor to the right edge of the application window or using a swipe gesture on a touchscreen.

If the user starts typing a particular word, a dropdown menu could appear, offering easy-to-click options as to which search engine to use with the word (Picture 5). Clicking on a button would open the page with the search result in the current tab. If I wanted to open the search results in a new tab, again, I would simply drag the respective button onto the tab bar (Pictures 6 and 7).

To close a tab, I would click on an overlay close button located at the top right corner of the respective tab.

To save a file on my hard disk, I would start dragging the (link to the) desired file to the left, which would prompt a side bar to appear, allowing me drop it onto my Downloads folder (Picture 9). If I would then click on the Downloads folder, I would get a list view of my downloads (Picture 10). The tab bar would display the sites I am downloading the files from. The address bar would switch to a toolbar, offering me with various buttons I would expect in this situation to, f.i., open the download location with my file browser, pause, cancel, or resume a download as well as a button to return to my browsing session.

Bookmarking a web page would work similarly. I would drag and drop the link or tab I want to bookmark from the tab bar onto the Bookmarks folder in the side bar.

The benefits of the Neo Web Browser are:

1. Opening a link in a new tab or window as well as saving files or bookmarking web pages would be as fast, if not faster, than right-clicking and choosing the respective menu entry.

2. The horizontal tab bar would save vertical space, which is always nice but especially important on smaller screens.

3. The method demonstrated above would work equally well for both touchscreens and mouse-operated systems.

The Neo Web Browser is part of the Neo Application Suite:

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Just wanted to let you know, there's a Chrome-based browser available which does almost same (or even better) addressbar click and new tab feature. [link]