Re: [Usability] Tabs

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:14 +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2005 13:28:00 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson <lars homer se> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this has more to do with using habits. After using
> Epiphany for a long time, I also kept closing the wrong tabs when I
> tried to use Firefox.

I do this too (usually use Galeon - there's no easy way to migrate
hstory, cookies, passwords etc. to another browser so I haven't).

A lot depends on your theme, and how clearly it shows which is the
current tab.

I often want to close tabs that correspond to windows that are not
currently visible, by the way.

As I recall, Opera has a right-click pop-up menu on each tab, which
also makes some sense, but has a severe discoverability problem.
The trick might be to have a |> button on the tab that brought up
a menu I suppose.

Liam

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