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As stated above, "In Chrome, you're eventually looking at triangles or lines with no way to differentiate them."

Hamuko 7y ago
There are favicons. And Firefox does nothing to alleviate the problem, since it too only shows favicons. It just makes switching tabs more painful.
- mindcrime 7y ago
  Favicons alone aren't really enough though. I routinely have multiple tabs open for Wikipedia, Youtube, Arxiv.org, Jira, Reddit, and even HN. With Firefox, you get the Favicon and at least the first few characters of the page title. And if you use the tab drop-down, you see all, or most, of the title (depending on how long it is).
  - Hamuko 7y ago
    >With Firefox, you get the Favicon and at least the first few characters of the page title. I just tested that and it was absolutely false.
    - mindcrime 7y ago
      I don't know what to tell you then. I'm typing this comment right now using Firefox, with a tab-bar full of tabs, and every visible tab has the favicon and a portion of the title visible. The rest can be found in the drop-down, with nearly the entire title displayed. Maybe there's some setting that controls this behavior, but my Firefox is pretty much completely stock. shrug
      - Hamuko 7y ago
        Well, this is what I'm seeing on a pretty much stock Firefox. https://0x0.st/zB86.png https://0x0.st/zB86.png
        mindcrime 7y ago
        Interesting. Maybe we're running different versions, or maybe it's somehow dependent on screen resolution or something. Weird. For me, Firefox has always displayed at least the first few characters of the title. https://pasteboard.co/Ih7GvRO.png https://pasteboard.co/Ih7GvRO.png
    - jolmg 7y ago
      This is what I see: https://ibb.co/T4z2YfZ https://ibb.co/T4z2YfZ
- jolmg 7y ago
  I was going to say that the favicons on Chrome probably disappear at some point too, but you're right. Chrome guarantees at least half a favicon on display, but to do so, new tabs are not put on the tab-bar. They're completely hidden with no way to access them via the tab-bar.
  - Hamuko 7y ago
    Yeah, that is not really optimal. However, that is luckily only a problem on a very high number of tabs. Firefox's tab UI starts having usability issues at a much higher number. At my tested width.

There are favicons. And Firefox does nothing to alleviate the problem, since it too only shows favicons. It just makes switching tabs more painful.

mindcrime 7y ago
Favicons alone aren't really enough though. I routinely have multiple tabs open for Wikipedia, Youtube, Arxiv.org, Jira, Reddit, and even HN. With Firefox, you get the Favicon and at least the first few characters of the page title. And if you use the tab drop-down, you see all, or most, of the title (depending on how long it is).
- Hamuko 7y ago
  >With Firefox, you get the Favicon and at least the first few characters of the page title. I just tested that and it was absolutely false.
  - mindcrime 7y ago
    I don't know what to tell you then. I'm typing this comment right now using Firefox, with a tab-bar full of tabs, and every visible tab has the favicon and a portion of the title visible. The rest can be found in the drop-down, with nearly the entire title displayed. Maybe there's some setting that controls this behavior, but my Firefox is pretty much completely stock. shrug
    - Hamuko 7y ago
      Well, this is what I'm seeing on a pretty much stock Firefox. https://0x0.st/zB86.png https://0x0.st/zB86.png
      - mindcrime 7y ago
        Interesting. Maybe we're running different versions, or maybe it's somehow dependent on screen resolution or something. Weird. For me, Firefox has always displayed at least the first few characters of the title. https://pasteboard.co/Ih7GvRO.png https://pasteboard.co/Ih7GvRO.png
  - jolmg 7y ago
    This is what I see: https://ibb.co/T4z2YfZ https://ibb.co/T4z2YfZ
jolmg 7y ago
I was going to say that the favicons on Chrome probably disappear at some point too, but you're right. Chrome guarantees at least half a favicon on display, but to do so, new tabs are not put on the tab-bar. They're completely hidden with no way to access them via the tab-bar.
- Hamuko 7y ago
  Yeah, that is not really optimal. However, that is luckily only a problem on a very high number of tabs. Firefox's tab UI starts having usability issues at a much higher number. At my tested width.