Comments on: Open new tabs next to the current http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/ Your source for Mozilla news, tips, reviews, and more. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: antistress http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66075 antistress Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:48:01 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66075 Also, i'm not fond of Ctrl-Tab switching either which adds a new keys combination that is hardly discoverable and a new UI that doesn't help the user to find its tabs using its spatial memory. To my mind, Firefox 2-3’s tab management and Ctrl-Tab switching that should be part of Firefox 3.1 are regressions in Firefox GUI Also, i’m not fond of Ctrl-Tab switching either which adds a new keys combination that is hardly discoverable and a new UI that doesn’t help the user to find its tabs using its spatial memory.

To my mind, Firefox 2-3’s tab management and Ctrl-Tab switching that should be part of Firefox 3.1 are regressions in Firefox GUI

]]> By: antistress http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66074 antistress Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:31:17 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66074 i agree with Prashant : Firefox’s tab management really sucks since version 2.0 Firefox 1.0 behaved like Chrome, always showing all tabs, reducing the size of their button if needed. Firefox 2.0 and 3 have a minimal size for tab buttons and if tabs are too numerous, some of them are rejected outside the screen whereas 2 arrows allo the user to call them back. That way tabs never are at the same place and user can't memorize their location (spatial/visual memory can't be used). Besides, having one arrow button at the right of the personal bar (to show other bookmarks) just above the button that shows the list of all opened tabs is really confusing for the user. Now that Firefox 3.0 uses Cairo, it can display snapshots (preview) of opened tabs. Therefore i suggest to return to Firefox 1.0 tab management and to add Tab Preview extension (see http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/tabpreview.png ) : therefore users can remember the location of their tabs using their spatial memory and, when necessary, tabs can be find using Tab Preview even if tabs buttons are too small to read the name of pages that are opened in tabs Moreover, Firefox could propose : - a function that would allow the user to display all tabs at once with a search box, similar to Exposé (like in Ctrl-Tab extension - see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/preview/5244/2 ) - a system similar to ColorfulTabs (from ChromaTabs http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/chromatabs/ ) It seems to me that Firefox’s tab management would be much more easier People can try that : in about:config, reduce the number in front of browser.tabs.tabMinWidth (i've put 50 instead of 100) then install Tab Preview extension Bonus : install Ctrl-Tab extension and ColorfulTabs extension i agree with Prashant : Firefox’s tab management really sucks since version 2.0

Firefox 1.0 behaved like Chrome, always showing all tabs, reducing the size of their button if needed.

Firefox 2.0 and 3 have a minimal size for tab buttons and if tabs are too numerous, some of them are rejected outside the screen whereas 2 arrows allo the user to call them back. That way tabs never are at the same place and user can’t memorize their location (spatial/visual memory can’t be used).
Besides, having one arrow button at the right of the personal bar (to show other bookmarks) just above the button that shows the list of all opened tabs is really confusing for the user.

Now that Firefox 3.0 uses Cairo, it can display snapshots (preview) of opened tabs.
Therefore i suggest to return to Firefox 1.0 tab management and to add Tab Preview extension (see http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/tabpreview.png ) :
therefore users can remember the location of their tabs using their spatial memory and, when necessary, tabs can be find using Tab Preview even if tabs buttons are too small to read the name of pages that are opened in tabs

Moreover, Firefox could propose :
- a function that would allow the user to display all tabs at once with a search box, similar to Expos̩ (like in Ctrl-Tab extension Рsee https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/preview/5244/2 )
- a system similar to ColorfulTabs (from ChromaTabs http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/chromatabs/ )

It seems to me that Firefox’s tab management would be much more easier

People can try that :
in about:config, reduce the number in front of browser.tabs.tabMinWidth (i’ve put 50 instead of 100) then install Tab Preview extension
Bonus : install Ctrl-Tab extension and ColorfulTabs extension

]]> By: Prashant http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66070 Prashant Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:42:50 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66070 I wish Firefox had this feature built in (Chrome does, as another commenter noted.) But both Chrome's and Firefox's tab management sucks, I'd really like to see the <a href="http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/08/finding-tabs-with-the-awesome-bar/" rel="nofollow">Finding Tabs using the Awesome bar</a> feature baked in. I wish Firefox had this feature built in (Chrome does, as another commenter noted.) But both Chrome’s and Firefox’s tab management sucks, I’d really like to see the Finding Tabs using the Awesome bar feature baked in.

]]> By: antistress http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66054 antistress Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:25:12 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66054 I use Tabs Open Relative and it's a great extension. It makes navigation more logical since related links are open in a tab close to the current one. I use Tabs Open Relative and it’s a great extension.

It makes navigation more logical since related links are open in a tab close to the current one.

]]> By: Doc http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66052 Doc Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:51:58 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66052 Well, if you get used to such a behavior it is pretty comfortable. I used that on Opera for years and when I switched to FF as my daily working browser I really missed that feature. I guess TabMixPlus does pretty much the same, so so it is not that new to the FF world. Well, if you get used to such a behavior it is pretty comfortable. I used that on Opera for years and when I switched to FF as my daily working browser I really missed that feature. I guess TabMixPlus does pretty much the same, so so it is not that new to the FF world.

]]> By: Ira http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66039 Ira Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:25:34 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66039 I do this and much more with "Tab Mix Plus", it's so featurefull it might fright some people though :-) only problem - their development version for FF3 is still not on the main add-ons site, so you need to google it up, but it's worth it. I do this and much more with “Tab Mix Plus”, it’s so featurefull it might fright some people though :-)

only problem – their development version for FF3 is still not on the main add-ons site, so you need to google it up, but it’s worth it.

]]> By: Tabs Open Relative « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66035 Tabs Open Relative « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:58:54 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66035 [...] Turns out, the Tabs Open Relative extension does just that. So when opening a link into a new tab, the tab opens to the right of the current tab instead of at the end of the tab bar. Tabs Open Relative is about 5 KB, publicly available via AMO and works with Firefox 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1a1pre News Source: Mozilla Links [...] [...] Turns out, the Tabs Open Relative extension does just that. So when opening a link into a new tab, the tab opens to the right of the current tab instead of at the end of the tab bar. Tabs Open Relative is about 5 KB, publicly available via AMO and works with Firefox 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1a1pre News Source: Mozilla Links [...]

]]> By: El Guru http://mozillalinks.org/2008/09/open-new-tabs-next-to-the-current/comment-page-1/#comment-66033 El Guru Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:46:35 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/?p=2320#comment-66033 I noticed this seemed to be a standard behaviour with Chrome. I am not sure if I would really care for it or not. I noticed this seemed to be a standard behaviour with Chrome. I am not sure if I would really care for it or not.

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