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."

Comments

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.

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: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.