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There's more info on tabs now, e.g. when a tab is playing audio. And it apparently was also triggered by observing that people didn't really know they could mov

by Vinnl 5y ago

There's more info on tabs now, e.g. when a tab is playing audio. And it apparently was also triggered by observing that people didn't really know they could move tabs around and manipulate them in other ways, which does seem more obvious now that they're "detached" from the content. That said, I won't really notice since I use the Sidebery extension for vertical tabs. But I've got a separate profile running to isolate Spotify and its desire for DRM, and there it's been nice in a small way.

viraptor 5y ago
> more info on tabs now, e.g. when a tab is playing audio. That was present for a few versions now. Playing tabs had the audio icon which could be used to mute/unmute.
- Hamuko 5y ago
  Yeah, not only did the old tab design have an indicator what tab was playing audio, it actually was more helpful since the audio indicator did not take over the favicon. I could clearly see that it was YouTube's favicon next to the speaker icon - now I only see the speaker icon.
- alluro2 5y ago
  True - my only gripe with it is that video icon is in the same place - if I have 5 YouTube tabs, 1 playing, that one with audio icon is very hard to distinguish from the other 4 with video icons. Not sure if video icon is useful to some people at all, especially since it's shown even if video is not actively playing.
  - bhandziuk 5y ago
    Huh, for me the speaker icon doesn't show unless I mouseover the tab. So I can't see which tab is playing at all. And the Muted/un-muted icons are almost identical.
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- Vinnl 5y ago
  I didn't mean the icon, but there's now a line for actual text besides the page title, which I'm assuming is/can be used to display useful info.
  - ziml77 5y ago
    Can it? My bar is full of tabs so all I see there is "PLAY" (the fading at the end of the button makes the "I" and "N" hard to see and the "G" is completely gone)
    - Vinnl 5y ago
      I would assume so, but as said, I have vertical tabs so I'm not really using it myself. If it doesn't now then it at least seems obvious it can in the future.
twobitshifter 5y ago
With the disconnect from the page, they’re not really “tabs” anymore at all, and haven’t been on mobile for a while. The tab bar is now a dock/task bar/window manager.

by Vinnl 5y ago

viraptor 5y ago

> more info on tabs now, e.g. when a tab is playing audio. That was present for a few versions now. Playing tabs had the audio icon which could be used to mute/unmute.

Hamuko 5y ago
Yeah, not only did the old tab design have an indicator what tab was playing audio, it actually was more helpful since the audio indicator did not take over the favicon. I could clearly see that it was YouTube's favicon next to the speaker icon - now I only see the speaker icon.
alluro2 5y ago
True - my only gripe with it is that video icon is in the same place - if I have 5 YouTube tabs, 1 playing, that one with audio icon is very hard to distinguish from the other 4 with video icons. Not sure if video icon is useful to some people at all, especially since it's shown even if video is not actively playing.
- bhandziuk 5y ago
  Huh, for me the speaker icon doesn't show unless I mouseover the tab. So I can't see which tab is playing at all. And the Muted/un-muted icons are almost identical.
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Vinnl 5y ago
I didn't mean the icon, but there's now a line for actual text besides the page title, which I'm assuming is/can be used to display useful info.
- ziml77 5y ago
  Can it? My bar is full of tabs so all I see there is "PLAY" (the fading at the end of the button makes the "I" and "N" hard to see and the "G" is completely gone)
  - Vinnl 5y ago
    I would assume so, but as said, I have vertical tabs so I'm not really using it myself. If it doesn't now then it at least seems obvious it can in the future.

twobitshifter 5y ago

With the disconnect from the page, they’re not really “tabs” anymore at all, and haven’t been on mobile for a while. The tab bar is now a dock/task bar/window manager.