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Darryl James Brown

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Warren C Stevens

Methods and systems are provided for managing a GUI of a web browser. When a user interaction with a tab presentation control is detected, a horizontal tab strip having first navigation tab controls for a set of webpages is removed, and a vertical tab strip having second navigation tab controls for the same set of webpages is displayed in a vertical column in the browser. In response to detecting a user hover interaction with the vertical tab strip while the vertical tab strip is in a collapsed state, the vertical tab strip is expanded from the collapsed state to an expanded state. In response to termination of the user hover interaction, the vertical tab strip is collapsed from the expanded state to the collapsed state. The vertical tab strip in the collapsed state occupies a smaller portion of the GUI then the vertical tab strip in the expanded state.

Navigation tab control organization and management for web browsers

A digital assistant supported on computing devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, personal computers (PCs), wearable devices, game consoles, connected car devices, virtual and mixed reality devices, and the like is configured to interact with a web browser to open multiple websites within a group responsively to a single voice input at a natural language interface. The user can select websites that are included in a given group through a user interface (UI), or the computing device may be configured to automatically create or recommend groups to the user based on monitored interactions and/or user behaviors (where the monitoring is performed with notice to the user and user consent).

Hands-free multi-site web navigation and consumption

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