Re: [Usability] Tabs

["Lars E. Pettersson" <lars homer se>]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 00:39, thilo pfennig wrote:
> The Firefox people think that a X for each tab is much too complicated. 
> I don't think so. What do you think? Anybody has done usability studies 
> on that?

OK, here are my thoughts:

I find an X for each tab most confusing. When I tried out Epiphany I
happened to close the wrong tab several times. With one X, acting on the
current tab displayed, you have a better control on what is going on. If
you click the X, you know exactly what tab will be removed, the one you
are looking at. A more experienced user may prefer the several X
version, as he/she has better control of the tabs, but for a novice, a
single X would probably be the best and least confusing.

Lars
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