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Firefox Tab Candy Alpha

Posted by kdawson on from the making-tabs-sweet dept.

Nunavut writes in with a note from TechCrunch on Aza Raskin's latest Mozilla goodie, Tab Candy. "Be sure to watch the video for a full overview — from the looks of it, it seems as if Tab Candy is sort of like Apple's Expose feature mixed with their Spaces feature, both of which are baked into OS X. For those who don't use a Mac, basically these features allow you to zoom out and get a bird's-eye-view of all your windows (or tabs, in this case) that are open — and you can also arrange open windows (or again, tabs, in this case) in certain spaces so they're clumped together. This allows you to more easily find what you're looking for with so many tabs open." Here's Raskin's blog post, the download link, and the FAQ.

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  1. Open? by Fusen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I the only one that opens up tabs to read the content and then closes the tab after doing so? I don't really see why someone would have like 20+ tabs constantly just sitting open.

    1. Re:Open? by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes.

      (If that's all we wanted to do we'd have stuck with the 'back' button).

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    2. Re:Open? by MacGyver2210 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      AMEN to that. I watched this guy wantonly open tabs to things he probably would only glance at, and then complain there's too many tabs.

      Hey, instead of Tab Candy(which seems like a hell of a lot of work to organize tabs while browsing) how about you just learn to properly use a tabbed browser?

      Most people can manage information well enough in their head that they don't need 15-25 tabs open at once.

      On top of that, it's actually faster to just open a second copy of the browser with a different group of tabs than it is to organize with Tab Candy.

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  2. This is a good example... by Coppit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a good example of a solution devised by an engineer. Somehow they think that peering at icons, dragging and dropping them, and organizing them into a hierarchy is really something the average user would want to do. The average user will find this solution worse than the problem. A better solution is to simply do what Chrome does and open new tabs next to the originating tab. It doesn't solve all the world's problems, but it's automatic and solves a couple of them.