Thanks for the hint. I've installed the tree tab plugin and tried it. While using it and comparing it directly to the default behavior I recognized some things related to the notebook issue. I especially like on a notebook with horizontally oriented tabs able to scroll through: * the information (the tab-names) is well distributed accross the screen * the notebook tab on the top is like a real file in an office * and scrolling through it feels natural and more intuitive to me, see: > On a more abstract level, in a way I can't really explain it feels > natural to me to be able to "rifle" through tabs as I would do with > pages in a book. I can keep my eyes focused on the content while > flipping through open tabs. > > regards, > > -- > Reinout van Schouwen Regards, Jean-Peer Am Freitag, den 12.03.2010, 16:05 +0000 schrieb jcupitt gmail com: > On 12 March 2010 14:05, Jean-Peer Lorenz <peer loz gmx net> wrote: > > 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. > > I do the same, heh. > > This is wandering off-topic, but I find tree-style tabs very helpful > for this, I don't know if you've tried it. Screenshot: > > http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/development/Screenshot.png > > Instead of being across the top of the window, tabs appear down the > side and are indented for you to show which tab was opened from what > tab. I find I can have up to 100 tabs open and I'm still able to find > stuff. > > Plus with tabs in a vertical list, the mousewheel scroll behaviour > makes a lot more sense (in my opinion). > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 > > John
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