>> I find (perhaps because I'm a mozilla user, and a tab-hoarder) that >> Chrome's UI is DREADFUL for anyone with lots of tabs - and probably >> intentionally to push users into closing them, since large numbers of >> tabs simply doesn't work as well in Chrome as in Firefox. So mimicing >> their behavior is NOT a good idea, IMHO. > >I'm one of the people (a minority in this thread, it appears) who prefers >Chrome's behavior and who'd like a skinny-tab option in Firefox, though not >necessarily the default option. I use all the major browsers, typically >with a dozen or more tabs open in the browser I'm using for my primary work >at any given time. I vastly prefer Chrome's tab behavior for several >reasons and rely on it as my primary browser in part because of it.
Sounds like a good option for an extension. >I believe the complaint of "XYZ pixels is too narrow because it hides >necessary information in the tab" misses another point. For me, having tabs >vanish off one side or the other of the tab strip is a worse omission of >important information. I have enough tabs that there's No Way they can even be visible as close boxes (and it's useless to me when it gets down to favicon). And I get that you have a different set of behaviors/preferences. An un-discoverable feature of the Awesome Bar is "%<space>url-fragment/title-fragment". It will show you completions from the list of open tabs only. This (and using scroll-wheels to spin quickly through a overflowing tab bar) make large numbers of tabs feasible without going the huge number of windows route. I think we could do skinnier tabs if we retained the ability to see what they are (not just favicon) easily. The more I think of it, the more I like the dock-like expand-what's-near-the-mouse idea - I wonder how easy it is? >I have typically navigate my 20 or 30 or 40 tabs mostly by keyboard, >cycling one way or the other across the tab strip, and for me the spatial >arrangement is very important (as is tab-switching speed). I find spatial organization is also quite useful, but I orient myself to it visually. I never use the keyboard nav - don't even know what the bindings are. :-) >There is an argument to be made for making life easier for people moving to >Firefox from Chrome, which clearly is an ambition in the current Firefox 57 >Quantum push. I don't have any data about how widespread my preferences are >or how much of a barrier it is adjusting to Firefox's disappearing tabs, >but this heavy Chrome user prefers Chrome's approach. > >I'm not trying to argue that my preferences are universal. But I expect >Google made its choices pretty carefully and not as a way to punish people >for using too many tabs. I use lots more tabs than the average user, but I >expect the general trend is drifting toward more and more tabs, so graceful >handling of overflow will become important for a larger fraction of people >as time goes on. Having a option for tab-handling might be good; it's a primary way users interact with the browser -- and *no* single way is the Right Way for all users. Extensions can help here, modulo most users don't look for them. You could also offer that (extension or option) when they import profile data from Chrome, or put a link in Prefs to a Chrome-like tab WebExtension (Prefs *could* have links to relevant Extensions). -- Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp remove "news" for personal email _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
