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Yeah, it's not going to happen. I've known people at both Mozilla and Chrome and the data shows heavy tabbers are in the extreme minority. I've run informal sur
by shalmanese 11y ago
Yeah, it's not going to happen. I've known people at both Mozilla and Chrome and the data shows heavy tabbers are in the extreme minority. I've run informal surveys and heavy tabbing has around ~30% penetration in the extreme techy circles which is why everyone thinks everyone else is doing it and it needs to be fixed.
Out in the wild though, it's something like, 95% of people never have more than 10 tabs open and 99% of people never have more than 20 tabs open. Don't quote me on the exact figures but those are in the ballpark of correct. It's hard to justify building a feature set for less than 1% of your users.
- dspillett 11y agoIt isn't just that we are a minority of the userbase: those of us who are part of that minority probably have vastly different preferences as to how a tab manager would best work so keeping the majority of that minority happy isn't going to be easy. It makes far more sense to concentrate on the majority and let plug-in authors take the support strain of keeping the others happy!
- wanderr 11y agoThey should not underestimate the value of power users though. How many regular users does a power user influence in browser choice? I don't know but I suspect it's high and has a lot to do with the early FF to Chrome migration. Besides that with the # of people using browsers a tiny minority can actually still be a huge # of users.