Re:Link Bubble - A new browser for Android
by TuringTest on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:05PM
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How can this be patented? It doesn't seem functionally no different than "open tab" and "open tab in the background", except that it opens a round notification instead of a tab-shaped one. Is there something else in it that's novel? Maybe the protocol for coordinating apps for opening the link in the background from a different app?
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My immediate thought when I saw the video was "this is basically the same functionality as middle-clicking a link in Firefox".
It looks like a very good implementation for Android, and good implementations are valuable and important, but the concept itself isn't original.