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Security implications for user interface changes?Security implications for user interface changes?Posted Nov 29, 2012 8:19 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: Security implications for user interface changes?
Tabs just take up valuable space when you're looking at page contents. Probably self-hiding tabs that explode out of the left edge of the window under some provocation would be best. That would allow lots more room for page titles in the tabs. (East Asian users might prefer they explode from the top edge instead; southwest Asians might prefer the right edge.)
As it is, those of us who keep a gross or more of tabs open at once, distributed among dozens of windows, (I do not kid) don't get to see much of page titles in the tabs.
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A better way of dealing with tabs Posted Nov 29, 2012 13:37 UTC (Thu) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]
Tree Style Tab is a lovely add-on to fix this - I've got a much better tab interface than the default, and it's on the left of my browser window rather than eating valuable vertical space... \o/
A better way of dealing with tabs Posted Dec 7, 2012 0:01 UTC (Fri) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
My tabs are at the right, but +1 million votes for Tree Style Tab from me too.
A better way of dealing with tabs Posted Dec 17, 2012 14:54 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
Do I understand that 'tabs on bottom' does not mean 'at the bottom of the screen' but 'below the address/status bars'? I didn't realise that 'above the address/status bars' was an option - it's seems a pretty stupid one to me - why would I want that?
I use either 'normal' aka: 'tabs on bottom' tabs or tree-style tabs. I typically have 200-odd pages open in 20-something browser windows of between 1 and 30 tabs each. I really miss the xterm feature of giving windows subject names which is what my browser windows actually are (is there a way to do that?). The tear-off tab is what made this way of working nice - before that things would get in the 'wrong' window and it was all crappy.
Will the 'tabs on top' concept break tree-style tabs? If so I am firmly in the 'this is anathema' camp. Presumably not as this 'ere firefox is 15.something and this seems to be a 3.6->4.0 change?. I'm certainly pretty unhappy about having horizontally-arranged tabs move further up the screen -that a load of extra mousing I could do without. However when I look at my browser on my laptop (Iceweasel 10.something, no tree-tabs there) I find it's already like this, and presumably has been for some time. As I had apparently not noticed I guess it's not that bad really, although now I think about it seems a very poor choice.
I suppose this is an interesting case of the natural conservative reaction. I start a moan about how terrible this new thing is, then find out halfway through that I've already had it for months and not even noticed...That must teach me something.
A better way of dealing with tabs Posted Dec 17, 2012 18:35 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
> Will the 'tabs on top' concept break tree-style tabs?
AFAICR tree-style tabs are already "on top" in the sense that "the toolbar and address bar are contained in the container switched by the tabs".
A better way of dealing with tabs Posted Dec 18, 2012 8:01 UTC (Tue) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
Not at all, as far as I can see.
In my current browser with tree style tabs, I see "back", "forward" and "reload" buttons and the address bar on top, and below are the tab headers (on the left) with the contents.
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