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Re: Redesigning the browser window

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Post by CognitiveLens » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 7:32 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #99

officemonkey wrote: post #39

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I just booted up Safari (for the first time since I installed Lion) and tried out the "Reading List". The main reason I don't like it is that the reading list doesn't load the page until you click on it. When I create a tab, it loads and opens the page and it's ready when I navigate to it. I navigate to a reading list page and I have to wait a non-trivial amount of time for the page to load. I understand why you woul…

> The main reason I don't like it is that the reading list doesn't load the page until you click on it. When I create a tab, it loads and opens the page and it's ready when I navigate to it. If you've ever gone on a Wikipedia/TVTropes/Everything2/ other-heavily-intralinked-website-here binge, you'd be thankful for the fact that the reading list doesn't load the pages you hand it until you're actually reading them. 30…

I'm not sure I understand your reply. I think that officemonkey meant that in a serial list of "things to read", Reading List could cache the preceding and succeeding pages relative to the particular item you're on so that as you complete one page you can immediately jump to the next/previous page.

I agree, however, that Reading List does not address the "random access" approach to research, which is more along the lines of using tabs simultaneously, as intended.

Re: Redesigning the browser window

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Post by Deadsunrise » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 10:36 AM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #95

tjoff wrote: post #89

You don't run applications maximized. You just don't. Sure there are exceptions, such as photoshop and similar but for browsing there is a reason for why the only thing you might miss with a width of no more than 1024 pixels (or even less) are commercials, and for why we have columns in newspapers... Thats why, even with widescreens, the horizontal real estate is very important and why you can't waste it. Sure, the v…

Maybe it's you and large monitors. On my laptop, I run everything maximized, and Alt+Tab is my best friend. My biggest gripe about OSX is that it's not built for this -- I literally need to define a separate space for every application I use, just so I don't have a horrible jumble of windows. And unfortunately still can't Alt+Tab between windows of the same app... :(

try Crtl+tab

Re: Redesigning the browser window

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Post by elxx » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 10:50 AM UTC

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #90

inconditus wrote: post #88

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Interestingly enough, Chrome had this option in the developers page, but they removed it. I believe it was called horizontal side tabs.

I have this option with Chrome 13.0.782.109 beta-m. If you right click a tab, the context menu option is "Use Side Tabs". I just can't remember what I did to get that option to appear in the context menu. I thought I used "about:labs", but that is no longer showing anything. Maybe the feature is baked into this build?

It's the first item in "about:flags".

Re: Redesigning the browser window

#104

Post by crazygringo » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 2:04 PM UTC

a5huynh wrote: post #96

crazygringo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's you and large monitors. On my laptop, I run everything maximized, and Alt+Tab is my best friend. My biggest gripe about OSX is that it's not built for this -- I literally need to define a separate space for every application I use, just so I don't have a horrible jumble of windows. And unfortunately still can't Alt+Tab between windows of the same app... :(

I'm sure if you're talking about Windows or OSX ( due to the Alt+Tab ambiguity ) but in OSX you can do Cmd + ` to tab between windows of the same app.

Thank you!