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[andrewducker]

Tab Candy - the next generation Firefox interface for dealing with Tab Overload

An Introduction to Firefox's Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Comments

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

I think this proposal requires too much fiddling by the user to work. This might just be my inertia speaking, but if I were them, I would just adopt the rather different approach of the Tree Style Tab extension.

[andrewducker]

I tried Tree Style Tab and it used up too much screen estate for me to be happy with it.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

What's your screen resolution?

I find that I'm usually very short of vertical screen real estate, but have more than enough horizontally. Tree Style Tab works beautifully with it because it frees us valuable vertical room for me.

My laptop's 1920x1200 and the work monitor I use with it is 1680x1050.

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

If I start having too many tabs open in a browser window--more than 15 or 20--I usually open a new browser window. Or two. I do the same thing if I start on a new task that I know will end up with a lot of related open pages too.

I think I prefer that, and using the OS's window managing features as needed, to this idea (though the advanced features look neat). It probably helps that I'm on a dual monitor setup most of the time so this makes better use of all that available space, but I'm in the habit of doing the same thing on my laptop too.

[andrewducker]

Multiple windows doesn't work with Session Restore, which is a bit of a killer for me.

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it work for multiple windows if you quit Firefox using ctrl+Q or the equivalent menu option?

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

While I have ridiculous numbers of tabs on the go (I count 25 in this window alone), I tend to group stuff by window, opening up a new window if things get silly. FF already allows you to drag tags between windows. I doubt I'd get to use this much, and most non-geeks I know don't tend to get tabs at all, so they would have no need for it.

I noticed that the browser in the movie featured the tabs above the address bar. I know FF has said they intend to move to that style in future versions, but I really hope they keep the option open for having tabs right next to the webpages themselves.

[andrewducker]

Interesting stuff on tabs here:
http://johncoxon.livejournal.com/451399.html
Worth watching that video too.

I don't like having multiple windows open, because if you close one of them then you can't open the tabs it had sitting there before. I need session restore, and this might allow me to organise things and do that at the same time.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Ah, not any longer! Firefox now has a "History > Recently closed windows" menu item, that restores those windows you accidentally removed.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Tab Mix Plus already addresses several of the pain points he mentions, such as needing to scroll (my tab bar goes across three rows and shrinks tabs much smaller than default if necessary) and fragmentation (new tabs open just to the right of my current one).

The rest... some bits of it look good. A lot of it is covered by existing features. A lot of the rest of it looks a bit too swooshy for me - like it doesn't look like it'd lend itself well to keyboard shortcuts. I could be wrong - something like Starcraft-style "press 1 to go to group 1, press Ctrl-1 to move the current tab to group 1" could work.

[andrewducker]

So long as they make it extensible (and that seems to be one of the aims) that should be fine.

TMP is fine (I use it myself, and have rows of icons), but it just means I have rows of mixed-up icons interleaved with each other.