> Reportedly, Google has been experimenting with this [hideable address bar] as well.
FWIW, Firefox and Opera had this long before google started "experimenting" with it.
Redesigning the browser window
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#42Regarding the use of horizontal space: This is what the Reading List feature of Safari 5 is for. (Example for comparison: http://i.imgur.com/x2tkl.png ) Tabs are really only supposed to be used for things you're actually looking at simultaneously ; any time you're just middle-clicking everything on a page (e.g. the HN frontpage), in order to queue those pages up for reading after you close the index page, you should…
This sounds interesting. I use Chrome. Does somebody know if there is a similar feature there?
Nothing native, but third party services like Instapaper and Read It Later are popular
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#43The real problem isn't the browser. It's the screen. Large horizontal 16:9 screens are great for video but poor for text and pages. In similar iOS style, screens should be rotatable and shift their content accordingly. Watching a video? Great, put the screen to horizontal. Browsing the web? Writing a letter? Coding? Put the screen to vertical.
Good luck with trying that on a laptop.
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#44> Reportedly, Google has been experimenting with this [hideable address bar] as well. FWIW, Firefox and Opera had this long before google started "experimenting" with it.
Both firefox and opera have had it for as long as I remember.
Chrome is making news because they are experimenting with it that way by default.
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#45Opera allows you to set the tab bar on your left (with little page screenshots) for years already. Works pretty well on large, wide screens.
It's quite buggy though, e.g. with many tabs opened the "open new tab" button disappears or that you can't switch easily between thumbnails/no-thumbnails view, etc. Hope the good guys and girls at Opera will take notice of the OP and will work on some improvements in this area. PS. also worth noting that Opera allows for easily grouping of tabs in the manner similar to the one described in OP (no naming though, fortu…
> with many tabs opened the "open new tab" button disappear
I just tried it and it seems that there's a sweet spot around 5-6 tabs where the button is partially hidden, but after that thumbnails are removed and you can see it again. A slight problem, but nothing to worry about.
> or that you can't switch easily between thumbnails/no-thumbnails view
Right click -> Customize -> Enable thumbnails in tabs.
Re: Redesigning the browser window
#46Opera allows you to set the tab bar on your left (with little page screenshots) for years already. Works pretty well on large, wide screens.
It's quite buggy though, e.g. with many tabs opened the "open new tab" button disappears or that you can't switch easily between thumbnails/no-thumbnails view, etc. Hope the good guys and girls at Opera will take notice of the OP and will work on some improvements in this area. PS. also worth noting that Opera allows for easily grouping of tabs in the manner similar to the one described in OP (no naming though, fortu…
To be honest I cannot remember the last time I actually clicked that button, but regardless its a design mistake.
What would work is putting a plus next to the closed tabs button (trashcan looking icon) along with the current plus at the bottom of the tabs.
I agree with you on the naming. I don't want to have to name each group. Although it would be nice to add it, possibly after a group has been created, then be able to right click no the group and give it a name so that the name shows instead of the "top" tab.
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#48> Reportedly, Google has been experimenting with this [hideable address bar] as well. FWIW, Firefox and Opera had this long before google started "experimenting" with it.
Both firefox and opera have had it for as long as I remember. Chrome is making news because they are experimenting with it that way by default.
That was a rumor.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except now your fonts are rendered like trash because the subpixel rendering and hinting assumes each RGB pixel triplet is in a horizontal line.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&#... See "VRGB".
I'm so used to the 3x horizontal resolution of the font rendering that it just doesn't look right when the subpixels are in a different direction.
Maybe it's just in Windows though, I don't have this problem on my iPhone.