Hyatt Discusses Tabs

Llywelyn writes "Über Geek David Hyatt (who, among other browser projects, works on Safari) has posted an interesting discussion about tabs, what he prefers, what works, and what doesn't."

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Re:Browser Tabs

[jsonic]

I've had the same issue. One way of solving it is to enable exit confirmation. That way, when you hit the main exit button, it will ask if you really want to close or not. Kind of a trade off since that can get annoying too, but at least you won't lose all the browser tabs you have open.

So THATS how you do that

[emacs_abuser]

I've been wondering how I could get Mozilla to open a tab in the background. From reading the article, now I know, you use Shift button 2. Great.

Now if I could figure out how to rearrange the tabs.

Re:it's interesting...

[tbmaddux]

A build was leaked that included tabbed browsing.

That was Safari beta v0.62. There's a new leak of v0.64. You can get at them both here.

Re:Browser Tabs

[PotPieMan]

Even better idea: What if cou could undo that accidental close?

You mean like Galeon's concept of a session? Galeon remembers what tabs you had open when you exit, and they appear next time you load the app. Great feature that's missing (IIRC) from Mozilla, Phoenix, and many of the other tabbed browsers.

Re:Tabs in Safari

[TomorrowPlusX]

Repeat after me: "command-~ is your friend"

Try it, you'll like it.

Now, this is one of my apple gripes. Mac os has some great keyboard commands, and some great features that blow everybody away. But... the only way I learn these things is when somebody tells me. There's no documentation saying "to switch between windows of one app, hit command tilde". No.

You learn because some fat, sarcastic apple geek looks down his nose at you because you're doing something crudely and as such, he feels he has the right to scorn you. It pains me that that's the ONLY way to learn how to use a mac properly.

Of course, I've just earned my fat sarcastic apple geek prize for this snarky post. But hell, I'm skinny. So pttth.

Re:Browser Tabs

[SashaM]

You mean like Galeon [sourceforge.net]'s concept of a session? Galeon remembers what tabs you had open when you exit, and they appear next time you load the app.

Yes, exactly like Opera does as well.

Re:Browser Tabs

[illtud]

I've had the same issue. One way of solving it is to enable exit confirmation. That way, when you hit the main exit button, it will ask if you really want to close or not. Kind of a trade off since that can get annoying too, but at least you won't lose all the browser tabs you have open.

Please take a moment to vote for that bug in Bugzilla. ie, Moz has no confirmation on CTRL-Q for 'close browser', and it's right next to CTRL-W for 'close tab'. The bug's here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821

(can't make a link cos bugzilla doesn't allow direct slashdot links)

Re:New MSDN browser uses tabs

[Drakonian]

It also has some nice feature that Moz/Phoenix don't have:

1. Closing a tab takes you onto the previous tab you were viewing, not the physically next tab. (Logical tab stack)
2. You can drag and drop tabs to rearrange them.