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> that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Worse than that is Chrome's way of animating tabs long after you close the tab. You close your tab, go back to what yo
by JoshMnem 9y ago
> that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs.
Worse than that is Chrome's way of animating tabs long after you close the tab. You close your tab, go back to what you're doing, and then the tab row animates to slide into a new position after an unnecessary pause. It's extremely distracting, because my brain sees the motion and interrupts my new task, thinking that there might be something happening in a different part of the screen that I should investigate.
It's a serious problem with UI animation in general that keeps getting worse.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoThe pause is actually a feature, the tab resizing is delayed so that the next tab's close button will be positioned under your cursor. FWIW Firefox and Edge both do the same thing.
- JoshMnem 9y agoI'm referring to the after-close animation. To reproduce, open a Chrome window and open enough tabs to fill the top (ctrl-t), and then add a few more. Then click on a tab in the middle somewhere to select it. Close a few tabs quickly with ctrl-w. The tabs will close quickly enough, but then there is an artificial delay before all the other tabs shift over to fill the space on the right. It only a second, but I work quickly and have usually started to move onto a new task by then. The animation breaks my concentration. It's a problem for people who are especially aware of visual motion. If there were a way to turn it off, it would be fine, but I haven't found a way.