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I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to

I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers: - OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually. - A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other window management features with maximum video size within the window.

mid-kid 7mo ago
I could've sworn firefox had an "all tabs" preview button that looked like 4 blocks in a grid, before the Australis era. Can't find any pictures/video footage of it in action however. Best I could find is: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-feature-all-tabs-previews-in-mozilla-firefox/ https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-featu... But I'm not sure if this landed, or if it ended up functioning differently.
- em-bee 7mo ago
  i could have sworn the same, at least as an extension. i just found this extension, but that's brand new: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff-tab-expos%C3%A9/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff-tab-expos%...
- sourcegrift 7mo ago
  Tab groups used to do that
sillywalk 7mo ago
> Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the top of windows, so you could have multiple windows stacked, but with their tabs visible on the top, but I don't recall a split-view.
amadeuspagel 7mo ago
- Windows like Snap Assist where you tile one browser tab to one half of the screen and then it shows a preview of all other tabs and you pick one to tile to the other half of the screen.

mid-kid 7mo ago

I could've sworn firefox had an "all tabs" preview button that looked like 4 blocks in a grid, before the Australis era. Can't find any pictures/video footage of it in action however. Best I could find is: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-feature-all-tabs-previews-in-mozilla-firefox/ https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-featu... But I'm not sure if this landed, or if it ended up functioning differently.

em-bee 7mo ago
i could have sworn the same, at least as an extension. i just found this extension, but that's brand new: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff-tab-expos%C3%A9/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff-tab-expos%...
sourcegrift 7mo ago
Tab groups used to do that

sillywalk 7mo ago

> Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the top of windows, so you could have multiple windows stacked, but with their tabs visible on the top, but I don't recall a split-view.

amadeuspagel 7mo ago

- Windows like Snap Assist where you tile one browser tab to one half of the screen and then it shows a preview of all other tabs and you pick one to tile to the other half of the screen.