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* I strongly disagree. People already grasp the meaning of "back". And having "back" do different things on different tabs will only make matters worse. For example, in one tab "back" would go to the previous page, and on th eother tab it would close it and focus the page that opened it (_if_ it still exists). --[[User:Caleb|Caleb]] 01:23, 25 Apr 2005 (PDT) | * I strongly disagree. People already grasp the meaning of "back". And having "back" do different things on different tabs will only make matters worse. For example, in one tab "back" would go to the previous page, and on th eother tab it would close it and focus the page that opened it (_if_ it still exists). --[[User:Caleb|Caleb]] 01:23, 25 Apr 2005 (PDT) | ||
* Every accessibility guide will tell you the same: new windows confuse users, and because Firefox opens new tabs so seemlessly, the user will sometimes wonder why the back button doesn't work (even I do this sometimes). The only logical behaviour would be to close the recently opened window in order to revert to the previous location. This should be coupled with an Undo Close Tab feature, but will give a significant accessibility advantage to Firefox.--[[User:Omikron|Omikron]] 08:48, 26 Apr 2005 (PDT) | * Every accessibility guide will tell you the same: new windows confuse users, and because Firefox opens new tabs so seemlessly, the user will sometimes wonder why the back button doesn't work (even I do this sometimes). The only logical behaviour would be to close the recently opened window in order to revert to the previous location. This should be coupled with an Undo Close Tab feature, but will give a significant accessibility advantage to Firefox.--[[User:Omikron|Omikron]] 08:48, 26 Apr 2005 (PDT)<br><br> | ||
** Agreed, Firefox is aimed at Mum & Dad users so I see no reason why the navigation paradigm should be updated to fit modern browsers. Firefox could have the edge by having the '''easiest''' navigation of any browser by far. The back button is for going back to the previous page, why oh why does no browser keep the back button enabled on new windows/tabs? (except IE!) because nobody is thinking about Mum & Dad and doesn't see the difficulty in constantly switching paradigms. I've mentioned this idea on Blake's Blog twice and here in the Wiki and still nobody seems interested! If Firefox ever wants to be the easiest browser of all, it needs to update the back button paradigm!<br><br> [[User:Kroc|Kroc]] 12:48, 26 Apr 2005 (PDT) | |||
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