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TuringTest on March 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Link Bubble - A new browser for Android

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?

Gormo on March 24, 2014 [–]

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.

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