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#"TabCandy" only works on a '''per-window basis''', rather than showing me the bigger picture of ''all'' the web-browsing that I am actually doing. I can't count the number of times that I've had 3 or so windows open and then lose one of these "ghost" tabs into TabCandy's "Land of Limbo" and then have to dig through all the windows to try and find it again (making me actually LESS productive with "TabCandy" than without). This just '''discourages the existing good practice of partitioning your open tabbed pages into windows'''.<br> "TabCandy" is therefore taking the tried, tested, more flexible, powerful, and much more simple method of grouping tabbed pages by window, and completely throwing it "out the window" (if you excuse the recursive pun! :)). There is '''not a 1:1 ratio between ''open'' windows and "tab sets"'''.<br><br> | #"TabCandy" only works on a '''per-window basis''', rather than showing me the bigger picture of ''all'' the web-browsing that I am actually doing. I can't count the number of times that I've had 3 or so windows open and then lose one of these "ghost" tabs into TabCandy's "Land of Limbo" and then have to dig through all the windows to try and find it again (making me actually LESS productive with "TabCandy" than without). This just '''discourages the existing good practice of partitioning your open tabbed pages into windows'''.<br> "TabCandy" is therefore taking the tried, tested, more flexible, powerful, and much more simple method of grouping tabbed pages by window, and completely throwing it "out the window" (if you excuse the recursive pun! :)). There is '''not a 1:1 ratio between ''open'' windows and "tab sets"'''.<br><br> | ||
#"TabCandy" doesn't really acknowledge or exploit the UI advantages that are now available in '''Windows 7'''. It also doesn't acknowledge that having '''5 or 6 different Firefox windows on Windows 7 is really not a problem for the user''' to deal with - there is therefore no reason to hide them from you. Another symptom of Mac-centric design?<br><br> | #"TabCandy" doesn't really acknowledge or exploit the UI advantages that are now available in '''Windows 7'''. It also doesn't acknowledge that having '''5 or 6 different Firefox windows on Windows 7 is really not a problem for the user''' to deal with - there is therefore no reason to hide them from you. Another symptom of Mac-centric design?<br><br> | ||
#"TabCandy" (and modern web-browsers in general) doesn't really acknowledge the fact that users shouldn't actually care about small inflexible UI elements for showing fixed-sized pages called "tabs". The user should care only about the web '''CONTENT '''or '''"pages"''' that they are browsing. <s>The new name of "Tab Sets" (whilst better than "Tab Candy") misguidedly still '''focuses its name on a small inflexible UI control called a "tab"'''.</s> ''(This has now been fixed with the excellent new name of "Panorama", however, the Firefox-UI and TabCandy/Panorama instruction video still over-use the word "tab".)<br><br> | #"TabCandy" (and modern web-browsers in general) doesn't really acknowledge the fact that users shouldn't actually care about small inflexible UI elements for showing fixed-sized pages called "tabs". The user should care only about the web '''CONTENT '''or '''"pages"''' that they are browsing. <s>The new name of "Tab Sets" (whilst better than "Tab Candy") misguidedly still '''focuses its name on a small inflexible UI control called a "tab"'''.</s> ''(Edit: This has now been fixed with the excellent new name of "Panorama", however, the Firefox-UI and TabCandy/Panorama instruction video still over-use the word "tab".)<br><br> | ||
#"TabCandy" completely ignores the advances made in '''Internet Explorer 8''' with its introduction of the simple and ''automatic'' '''coloured tab group''' indication. Again, is this another symptom of a Mac-centric design?<br><br> | #"TabCandy" completely ignores the advances made in '''Internet Explorer 8''' with its introduction of the simple and ''automatic'' '''coloured tab group''' indication. Again, is this another symptom of a Mac-centric design?<br><br> | ||