The "browse" button at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ currently jumps to a dense/scary help page. I think we can provide a smoother experience, especially for first time users (proposal below).
Also, the landing page and all the tabs linked from it special-case the Linux kernel as an example, which I think we can avoid.

Proposal:

• the landing page should be the "search" tab, showing a slick "google like" search bar and nothing helse
• the "help" tab is already well visible from there, so the user can click on it if desired
• remove the automatic redirect to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/ ; it should really not appear anywhere unless the user has selected it (e.g., as a search result)

As minor points:

• i'm not sure why browse should be a tab in the same page, as browsing will happen starting from search *results*, we should simply remove it entirely from the search page
• the search tab shows the headers of the result table "origin type" / "Origin browse url" even before a search is attempted, which is confusing as they seem hint for how to fill the search bar. We should show them iff search results are available