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You can still only open about 15 tabs, after which the Safari tab bar turns into a completely unusable horizontally-scrolling list. Chrome solved this a decade

by pkamb 6y ago

You can still only open about 15 tabs, after which the Safari tab bar turns into a completely unusable horizontally-scrolling list. Chrome solved this a decade ago... just keep shrinking the tabs down to Favicon size or smaller. Safari just added Favicon images last year, and I don't even think they're visible by default. --- EDIT: Favicon-only compact tabs to have actually been changed/added in Safari 14 for Big Sur!? Which would actually probably push me to switch (and upgrade to Big Sur, even). > https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/07/macOS-Big-Sur-Tabs.jpg https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/07/macOS...

jkelleyrtp 6y ago
My current tab bar on 10.15.7 with Safari 14, you don't even need to upgrade to Big Sur. Cmd + hover lets you preview a page or close it. https://i.imgur.com/NS6Zjd6.png https://i.imgur.com/NS6Zjd6.png
- lilyball 6y ago
  Cmd doesn't do anything. The preview shows up on hover after a second.
  - coliveira 6y ago
    Cmd allows you to close the tab without activating it.
    - saagarjha 6y ago
      You should be able to do that too without holding down command.
Dylan16807 6y ago
> Chrome solved this a decade ago... just keep shrinking the tabs down to Favicon size or smaller. Safari just added Favicon images last year, and I don't even think they're visible by default. Don't give them too much credit. For a very long time, the minimum size for chrome tabs resulted in them hiding the favicon, becoming a completely useless row of triangles. And to add insult to injury, the tabs were still big enough to show favicons if they wanted to.
- pkamb 6y ago
  Even when you have a lot of Chrome tabs open, you still mostly always see the favicon. When it stop showing the favicons, that's when you really know you have too many tabs open. It's a bit of a feature, really. The tabs are still completely usable, but not seeing the favicons was just annoying enough that it changed my behavior and would cause me to finally close a bunch of my open tabs.
  - Dylan16807 6y ago
    If you had a small window it could happen with a pretty small number of tabs. It was bad.
hombre_fatal 6y ago
This isn’t true. Chrome on macOS will literally stop showing you new tabs altogether once you have too many which is the worst solution I can think of. One of the best trade-offs is to stop shrinking tabs at some point and let you scroll them.

by pkamb 6y ago

jkelleyrtp 6y ago

My current tab bar on 10.15.7 with Safari 14, you don't even need to upgrade to Big Sur. Cmd + hover lets you preview a page or close it. https://i.imgur.com/NS6Zjd6.png https://i.imgur.com/NS6Zjd6.png

lilyball 6y ago
Cmd doesn't do anything. The preview shows up on hover after a second.
- coliveira 6y ago
  Cmd allows you to close the tab without activating it.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    You should be able to do that too without holding down command.

Dylan16807 6y ago

> Chrome solved this a decade ago... just keep shrinking the tabs down to Favicon size or smaller. Safari just added Favicon images last year, and I don't even think they're visible by default. Don't give them too much credit. For a very long time, the minimum size for chrome tabs resulted in them hiding the favicon, becoming a completely useless row of triangles. And to add insult to injury, the tabs were still big enough to show favicons if they wanted to.

pkamb 6y ago
Even when you have a lot of Chrome tabs open, you still mostly always see the favicon. When it stop showing the favicons, that's when you really know you have too many tabs open. It's a bit of a feature, really. The tabs are still completely usable, but not seeing the favicons was just annoying enough that it changed my behavior and would cause me to finally close a bunch of my open tabs.
- Dylan16807 6y ago
  If you had a small window it could happen with a pretty small number of tabs. It was bad.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

This isn’t true. Chrome on macOS will literally stop showing you new tabs altogether once you have too many which is the worst solution I can think of. One of the best trade-offs is to stop shrinking tabs at some point and let you scroll them.