Project Tofino
medium.com/project-tofino · Company blog · on HN since 2016
The Mozilla Firefox team's blog for Project Tofino, a short experiment on new browser interfaces and the Datomish knowledge store.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for the finding that normal users struggle with unconventional browser interfaces, and for the Datomish and Mentat storage work.
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- 1Browsers, Innovators Dilemma, and Project Tofino9 people · 22 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 2Introducing Datomish, a flexible embedded knowledge store6 people · 16 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Designing a Browser that isn't a Browser3 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Engineering Update on Mozilla's Project Tofino2 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5(Re)defining Mozilla's Tofino Project2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6Project Tofino: Browser Explorations from the Firefox Team2 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 7Tofino project goals update f667f60828581 people · first shared 2016
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metajack · 2016-06-01
It's probably just because it's new. Here's their blog:
https://medium.com/project-tofino
I'd also recommend looking at browser.html and Servo:
https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml
stickykbd · 2018-05-19
For those who may have missed it, Mozilla is working on Datalog knowledge store backed by SQLite called Project Mentat [1] (also written in Rust).
Announcement and rationale written by one of its devs can be found here [2].
Also previous HN discussion is located here [3].
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mentat
[2] https://medium.com/project-tofino/introducing-datomish-a-flexible-embe…
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13568559
abrowne · 2017-03-29
Mozilla had a recent project (Tofino) to experiment with browser interfaces, and one of their conclusions was
"Boy howdy do normal users have hard time with non-conventional browser interfaces!" https://medium.com/project-tofino/re-defining-the-tofino-project-6d3c9…
holygoat · 2017-02-05
You might be interested in reading this much longer piece, which includes a brief code example, and spends more time than the README explaining the motivation for the project.
https://medium.com/project-tofino/introducing-datomish-a-flexible-embe…
dblohm7 · 2016-09-27
It ran its course. It was only supposed to be a three month project. See the original announcement: https://medium.com/project-tofino/browsers-innovators-dilemma-and-proj…
shakna · 2016-08-24
Though it doesn't sound like the team leader even has a clear idea of what they're trying to do [0], Tofino seems interesting.
One part of this "reinvent the browser" they're looking at is tab grouping, potentially with heuristics. However, it does give me pause, as usually when Firefox comes up, HN talks about how they always have 20+ tabs open at once. (Anecdotally, many of my friends and family are the same).
[0] https://medium.com/project-tofino/tofino-project-goals-update-f667f608…
thiht · 2016-04-13
Slightly relevant: https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-isn-t-a-bro…