Simple answer: in Firefox I can put approx. 10 tabs on the screen. When opening more tabs, I cannot see all of them and use the scrolling. At the moment I have more than 30 tabs open, they increase in number very quick by following links etc. And I am not willing to close them because there is no reason for me. I admit that I even use this as a kind of history since I mostly use suspend/hibernate instead of shutdown and by doing so I collect tabs over many days or weeks. To prevent misunderstanding: I don't want to fight pro or against something here. I just want to show that there are people (me) who use this feature and really appreciate it (the same holds for any other usability or feature removal discussion e.g. the menu icon removal thing). In order to contribute some value to the discussion I will give more information about my way of working: I use Browsers in a way described above and I'd really miss the scrolling feature in Firefox. However, I recently recognized that the current tab does not change when scrolling and I use the scrolling only for looking through my open tabs, actually. Compared to the direct change of the current notebook page in e.g. gedit such behavior is more 'eye-friendly'. In gedit I use the scrolling feature sometimes, especially when lots of document windows are opened. If a tree view (in a sidepane) is available I often use the this tree view for changing the current document though. In cases of preferences tabs I use the scrolling almost never and it has no importance for me. In such cases proper keyboard navigation through the tabs is more important, IMO. HTH, Jean-Peer PS: is the tab scrolling feature in Firefox provided by/based on GTK? Am Freitag, den 12.03.2010, 13:31 +0000 schrieb Calum Benson: > On 12 Mar 2010, at 12:28, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote: > > > I want to point to the very interesting link that was posted by Andreas > > Nilsson in gtk-devel list: > > http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/11/usability > > > > For me, it is a *huge* usability feature to be able to scroll through > > notebook tabs. I use this all the time when using Firefox, Nautilus, > > gedit and other applications with lots of documents opened in tabs. I > > love it. > > So as the only person who's really claimed to use this feature so far: why do you use it? What is your use case for scrolling through tabs? In most cases, people can see which tab they need to visit, so it is much quicker for them to click that tab directly. > > Cheeri, > Calum. >
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