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<DIV><STRONG>From:</STRONG> <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:05 PM</DIV></DIV></DIV>What
happened to my idea for browsers to have a special window containing tabs for
"background apps", which save screen real estate by just showing an icon and
title (and a URL or domain?) and no actual tab content? You might modify the
UI so that quitting the normal browser leaves this window open, possibly as a
separate OS app. Seems to me that this would provide almost exactly the
desired functionality but without introducing new security concerns and
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>How many applications do we expect any one
user to have open? I would imagine one would do fine on the Taskbar or in
the Notification Area, like other programs, but a manager would be good if a
user had a great deal of applications running at once.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The manager would have to stay out of the way,
though; either by being called up through a menu option, like the downloads
page, or by minimizing to the notification area.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Whether you quit the main browser or not, the
browser process would have to remain loaded, correct? Otherwise, it would be
impossible to render pages.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The browser itself IS a desktop app, and has a
lot of freedom; it could stay silently in the background, or manage the
applications itself, or give certain rendering abilities to the application
window. As such, we should keep it in mind while we plan. An API for browsers to
spin off a website as another application would be something to look
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