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Updated Sep. 11, 2010

Right, so the screenshot [link] on which the initial mockup was based on was an April Fools' joke.

But it was an interesting interface and since the original post I had a lot of various ideas brewing, and now finally have a bit of time to work 'em out.

This is what I have so far, and it's got a little bit of everything: it uses the proper Windows 7 "window ui" (unlike the original mockup); borrows some elements from Chrome (tabs); some stuff from Firefox (panorama, awesome bar); some from addons (close tab undo button); uses metro-like style for buttons; and even has some"experimental" stuff like browser-based site login, which is based on ideas of Aza Raskin.

(strangely enough nothing has been borrowed from IE so far, hmmm )

This is just for starters though. I've got a whole host of ideas I'm gonna be fleshing out in Photoshop and will post on my blog [link]

Oh, and needless to say, this is no longer really an IE9 concept, more like a "my ideal browser" concept. Who knows, maybe somebody will decide to turn this into an actual Firefox addon/theme.

Description
Updated Sep. 11, 2010

Right, so the screenshot [link] on which the initial mockup was based on was an April Fools' joke.

But it was an interesting interface and since the original post I had a lot of various ideas brewing, and now finally have a bit of time to work 'em out.

This is what I have so far, and it's got a little bit of everything: it uses the proper Windows 7 "window ui" (unlike the original mockup); borrows some elements from Chrome (tabs); some stuff from Firefox (panorama, awesome bar); some from addons (close tab undo button); uses metro-like style for buttons; and even has some"experimental" stuff like browser-based site login, which is based on ideas of Aza Raskin.

(strangely enough nothing has been borrowed from IE so far, hmmm )

This is just for starters though. I've got a whole host of ideas I'm gonna be fleshing out in Photoshop and will post on my blog [link]

Oh, and needless to say, this is no longer really an IE9 concept, more like a "my ideal browser" concept. Who knows, maybe somebody will decide to turn this into an actual Firefox addon/theme.