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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by frosted-flakes » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:55 AM UTC

ygra wrote: post #5

I liked what IE ... 8? has done abck in the day where opening a new tab from another one will create a colored group, so you kinda have automatic grouping that allows you to tell at a glance "Oh those all belong to the same tvtropes tab rampage, but I'm looking for that other thing now I was looking at before".

IE8 through IE11 had the coloured tab groups.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by qubex » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:56 AM UTC

kevsim wrote: post #30

qubex wrote: post #26

What I find hilarious about tabs is that it’s basically a full reimplementation of a multitasking interface within a MDI (Multiple Document In Window) context: we came up with windows for different applications and for different documents within that application, and then for the browser we went back and revised the conventional wisdom.

I guess nothing stops us from running one tab per window but I have to say I'm not keen to go back to that. What we be the advantage there over tabs in your opinion?

I’m not arguing for the multi-window alternative. Indeed in MacOS I quite like the tabbed interface for applications. It just amuses me how when the problem re-arose, we solved it differently than we had previously.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:57 AM UTC

RHSeeger wrote: post #13

I just want the title bar back, above the tabs, on the mac. It's so frustrating trying to move/select the window with a tiny sliver available to click on.

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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by statictype » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #19

Maybe I'm wrong (EDIT: seems I'm wrong!), but I feel like the people with dozens of tabs open (guilty) aren't the ones who use organizational features? Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.

Dozens?

Nothing to feel guilty about.

I have closer to 40.

I know people who end up with hundreds.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by ggm » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

Move tab one left. Move tab one right. Move tab far left, move tab far right. Keyboard acceleration?

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by rohan1024 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

On my 1080p monitor most of websites still keep white spaces on either side so this makes sense.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by y42 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

I am a tab minimalist, but still i am looking forward to this. Been using this in the official release for a while now (activate it via chrome:flags). Only thing i am missing is persistency (keep the group if tabs are closed) and some kind of collapsing.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by russellbeattie » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:01 AM UTC

Tab minimalist here... It won't help the others. They just don't pay attention to tabs. It's like a mental blind spot for them... Maybe an outright disorder. They just keep opening new tabs every chance they get. I once sat over someone's shoulder and watched them continue to click the same link in a message over and over again to look at a JIRA while we were debugging something. Every time, it just opened up a new tab. And they just didn't care. That was how to open up that bit of info. 10, 20, 30 tabs... They just kept piling up. I almost lost my mind This is a techie, mind you, not some random office worker. It was mind boggling.

What Chrome really needs is an auto close feature. Default to like 10 tabs max, with the option to increase for power users. Oldest tabs without any activity get whacked automatically. The world would save gigawatts of power overnight.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by infinityplus1 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:02 AM UTC

akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

I used to use tree style tabs too but it is too slow and laggy. I've trying alternatives and settled on Sideberry as of now. It's way faster albeit a little buggy. Some major bugs have been fixed and I'm very satisfied. I would recommend trying it.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by drukenemo » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:02 AM UTC

My greatest problem with Chrome and tabs is its tendency to “forget” pinned tabs when restarting. I’ve lost pinned tabs quite a few times and don’t trust Chrome to keep them. This never occurs with Safari and Firefox in my experience.