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Oh snap, now that's a UI overhaul. How's that tab interface working out? At a glance I can imagine how much more effective it is at displaying a large number o
by loupeabody 13y ago
Oh snap, now that's a UI overhaul. How's that tab interface working out?
At a glance I can imagine how much more effective it is at displaying a large number of tabs in the same window.
In fact, I'm finding it quite brilliant. The web at large takes advantage of vertical scrolling, so why shouldn't browsers? All of my bookmarks are already arranged in vertical lists.
Even when faced with the input procedure of navigating my cursor to a browser tab, vertically stacked tabs have a clear advantage (for trackpad/thinkpad nipple users like myself):
To move my cursor up and down (again, with a trackpad) all I have to do is bend a finger at the knuckle. When moving the cursor a substantial distance left or right, I torque my whole wrist slightly or reposition it entirely.
Maybe that's splitting hairs... I'm rather starry-eyed at the moment seeing your Firefox interface. Perhaps I'm missing some disadvantages?
- spindritf 13y ago> Perhaps I'm missing some disadvantages? Drag and drop sometimes stops working and you lose the ability to move those tabs around (change their order). Some pages will be too wide, at least on a small screen like mine, forcing you to scroll horizontally. Also, after every (major) update you need to (re)move the new buttons. But those are all very minor. Otherwise, it's smooth sailing.
- msujaws 13y agoWhen was the last major update where buttons got re-added? Are you speaking from actual experience or just postulating?
- gluxon 13y agoFirefox 4-20 hasn't had any toolbar button changes. You really can't count third-party addons as something that Mozilla changes to the toolbar.
- spindritf 13y ago> When was the last major update where buttons got re-added? Not so much re-added as just added. The download button (arrow) for example was added in Firefox 20. Add-ons also tend to insert their buttons. Or even reactivate the add-ons bar. But it takes seconds to fix.
- baby 13y agoThose bugs never happened to me. I've been using the add-on for years on the beta.
- pessimizer 13y ago>Drag and drop sometimes stops working and you lose the ability to move those tabs around (change their order). I haven't had that happen for months, so I'm hoping that it was a long standing bug that just got fixed.
- baby 13y ago> How's that tab interface working out? I've been using it for years, I can't see myself go back to tabs on top. That's why I can't switch to chrome. Tabs on the left (or right) is how it is supposed to be ! Websites nowadays have a lot of horizontal space because of our new big wide screens. We don't have 4/3 anymore and all the websites were conceived for that kind of resolution (800600 or 1024768). Also it's more practical because you can open so many tabs at the same time, you can use nesting etc... I really don't understand why it's still not the default, or at least a native option of the browser.
- mistermann 13y agoAgreed, I would never consider using another browser unless they had vertical tabs. My Firefox typically crashes once per day but treestyle tabs make it worth it.
- re_chief 13y agoYou can make your tabs vertical in Opera without even having to install an extension, though they don't indent like they do in TreeStyleTabs.
- holloway 13y agoThe new Opera (using Chrome) lacks vertical tabs unfortunately. Can't seem to find any info on whether it'll come back
- sharkweek 13y agoOnce a day? Any idea why? For a while, mine was due to memory issues but they did some seriously awesome work fixing it somewhere in the high teen updates, ever since then it's been solid.
- ars 13y agoI had the same problem - tree style tabs would make the browser crash constantly. I eventually gave up.