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Of the options present, the Chevron Menu with Scrolling Strip seems to feel the most natural, both in UI consistency with bookmarks overflow, and the concept of extending the tab strip. It also avoids a lot of timing/speed issues associated with other solutions. | Of the options present, the Chevron Menu with Scrolling Strip seems to feel the most natural, both in UI consistency with bookmarks overflow, and the concept of extending the tab strip. It also avoids a lot of timing/speed issues associated with other solutions. | ||
= Other threads about tabs, tab overflow, and tab design = | |||
Over the years there have been many disjointed threads about tabs, tab overflow, and tab design on how to handle the issues of the close button, drag-and-drop, screen real estate, tab width, etc. This list is meant to bring together previous discussions that may have good, but overlooked ideas. | |||
The dates (yyyy-mm-dd) listed are of the first post in each thread. | |||
* 2002-07-17, "Tabbed Browser: Gracefully handling tab overflow" http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.ui/browse_thread/thread/2fef8f189a52e1d9/ | |||
* 2005-08-29, [[Link Targeting#Closing Tabs]] and [[Link Targeting#Tab Discoverability]] | |||
* 2005-09-13, "UE fixes for tabbed browsing" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308396 | |||
* 2005-11-03, Ben Goodger's Blog: "Improving Tabbed Browsing" http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009210.html | |||
* 2005-11-04, Comments on Ben Goodger's blog entry: "Using tabs" http://www.beltzner.ca/mike/archives/2005/11/04/using_tabs.html | |||
* 2005-11-05, "New Experimental Tabbed Browsing Builds" http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=337912 | |||
* 2005-11-29, "Bugzilla Bug 318168 Improve tabbed browsing" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318168 | |||
* 2006-06-22 "get the browser.tabs.tabClipWidth hidden pref working again" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342385 | |||
* 2006-06-26, "tab scrolling patch landed on the trunk" http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/5a15c3357b03deab/ | |||
* 2006-06-27, "make tab minWidth 125px and heed the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth hidden pref" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342890 | |||
* 2006-06-30, "my vote on the new bon echo tab scrolling feature is ..." http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=434106 | |||
* 2006-07-02, "BonEcho Tabs display in tab bar for builds after 06-28-2006" http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=434924 | |||
= Tab modifiers for other versions of Firefox (1.0x/1.5x)= | |||
Looking at addons and their screenshots can give ideas as to what features and capabilities users are looking for in their tabs. | |||
* Tabbed Browsing addons https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?cat=14 | |||