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Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

#11
I group my tabs in separate windows and let my window manager take care of managing them. Maybe this is good in some Chrome OS style netbook?

Sure, the contextual search (or whatever it was) seemed cool but elementary tasks like organizing my tabs/windows should be simple. Soon I'll have to switch my mental mode just to get my head to this fancy tab-organize mode.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

#14
post #12

Great video. FF learns yet another thing from Chrome. (In Chrome you can drag and drop tabs into distinct windows easily. It's actually easier to do this in Chrome than in Tab Candy.)

You can do that in vanilla Firefox 3.6 and I'm pretty sure it's worked since at least 2.x

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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post #14
post #12

Great video. FF learns yet another thing from Chrome. (In Chrome you can drag and drop tabs into distinct windows easily. It's actually easier to do this in Chrome than in Tab Candy.)

You can do that in vanilla Firefox 3.6 and I'm pretty sure it's worked since at least 2.x

No you can't... I just tried dragging a tab into a window. Doesn't work.

The whole point of tab candy is to fix this deficiency.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

#16
Why isn't this automatic? Maybe it's a privacy issue, but it seems to me that some sort of neural-networky thing (excuse my AI ignorance) could automatically group these. Especially with some training from the user, I bet a program could determine for 99% of cases what 'tab group' a tab should go in with broad enough categories (development, camera shopping, photo browsing, social networking, etc.).

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do that in vanilla Firefox 3.6 and I'm pretty sure it's worked since at least 2.x

No you can't... I just tried dragging a tab into a window. Doesn't work. The whole point of tab candy is to fix this deficiency.

Dragging tabs between windows works for me in both Firefox 3.6 and 4.0b3pre, with a clean profile (no extensions). You have to drop the tab into the tab bar area (just like Chrome 5 - I don't know if other versions of Chrome are different).

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

#18
post #13

What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab? This way related things tend to stay together. This one "feature" was why I switched to Chrome. This seems like an overly complicated solution in search of a problem.

You still have problems when you open LOTS of tabs. You can no longer tell what page is loaded in a given tab.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

#19
post #13

What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab? This way related things tend to stay together. This one "feature" was why I switched to Chrome. This seems like an overly complicated solution in search of a problem.

My biggest problem with this approach is I lose context. I prefer tabs to open on the end of my browser. That way I can open 5 tabs, type Command-9 to to get to the last tab, and quickly deal with my tabs in a LIFO manner.

Tab Candy seems awesome to me for power browsing (20+ tabs), as long as there are intuitive keyboard shortcuts.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

#20

Why isn't this automatic? Maybe it's a privacy issue, but it seems to me that some sort of neural-networky thing (excuse my AI ignorance) could automatically group these. Especially with some training from the user, I bet a program could determine for 99% of cases what 'tab group' a tab should go in with broad enough categories (development, camera shopping, photo browsing, social networking, etc.).

The Tab Candy team has plans for "rules" that would work kind of like mail filters for placing new tabs into groups automatically. And these would be exposed to add-ons, if someone wants to write more complicated classification code.
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