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It would also be interesting to group tabs from the same domain, like windows XP/KDE/Gnome taskbar grouping. | It would also be interesting to group tabs from the same domain, like windows XP/KDE/Gnome taskbar grouping. | ||
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As a heavy tab user (20-100 tabs), this discussion caught my attention, since anything that handles tabs better is good for me. | |||
My "tab handler of preference" is a ''vertical'' tabbar using extension "Vertigo" - allows a large number of tabs to be visible in one consistent column rather than broken up into multiple rows, and puts a scrollbar (or could use up/down at top/bottom) for overflow. How to do it better... some quick thoughts: | |||
* I prefer a scrollbar to up/down chevrons, but I'd prefer a static hover-zone at the start and end of the tabbar to either, that appears if overflowing. Ie, hover over the start/end zone of the tabbar to scroll backwards/forward, as opposed to clicking. I haven't seen this elsewhere. | |||
* I was looking at how some programs solve long menus (eg long file lists, font lists, installed software lists etc) - the list comes up in multiple columns. Could there be for example, a visible tabbar, and if you hovered, it overlays a multiple row/column tabbar showing all tabs? That way you get the advantage of as many multiple rows as needed (ie almost always all tabs will be visible), but it vanishes back to the normal size once the action is complete or the user stops hovering, thus not stealing content area. | |||
Last important thing - please allow a resizable vertical tabbar option, and check that tab reordering works correctly for it. That's more important to heavy users. At the moment vertical tabbar has to be done via prefs.js or vertigo extension, neither's ideal, and drag&drop tab reordering with the prefs.js version has issues. | |||
Hope some of the above helps. [[User:Foxxen2|Foxxen2]] 09:11, 1 April 2006 (PST) | |||