Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 05:09 +0000, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:22 -0500, Randall Wood wrote:
> > - Perhaps the close button should be hidden when there is only a  
> > single tab?
> 
> Just wanted to point out that Firefox puts the close button on the tab
> itself because Mozilla did some usability testing and found that the
> close-at-end-of-tab-bar button just confused people.  They'd be asked to
> close the tab, look around a bit, glance at that button, dismiss it,
> look some more...etc.
> 
> They've chosen to have "close" on a single tab close whatever file/site
> happens to be open at the time but keep the application running.

Yes, I've seen that research [1] myself - looked convincing. Close
buttons on tabs seems to be convention in GNOME apps right now, and that
seems to be the correct approach.

A.

[1] http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20070509-CHI2007/p1783.pdf