Comments on: how dumb is that

By: Jadd

Jadd — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:53:32 +0000

So, Firefox is resorting to copying even Opera’s useless features? The preview thing was introduced way back in 9.0 (currently, we’re in 9.5).

By: John "Not Really" Sm

John "Not Really" Sm — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:56:18 +0000

They don’t know how to disable the plug-in warning (seriously, you can’t remove that).
They also don’t know about object focus.

In other words: Epiphany + WebKit = WIN

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:00:12 +0000

Personally I disagree about the tab order… for me it’s not about windows it’s about context. I open a number of tabs to jump off into another topic or do something, and when I close it, I expect to return to the previous context. If I have opened a number of tabs and close one at it goes to the tab to the left – what is that? Doesn’t seem to fit my flow.

Is there another context that I should be viewing Tabs in other than last task context?

By: Erwan

Erwan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:51:39 +0000

I’ve played with it (because it’s an extension) and I hate it. It’s fast to render, but:
1) you still have to look at a small thumbnail instead of the full page (with a horrible scaling algorithm on Linux, very pixelized)
2) the order is completely messed up

And they don’t provide a way to disable it… I guess I’ll have to get used to the ctrl+pg down shortcut.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:29:50 +0000

Agreed. You would think they would leave this sort of thing to an add-on. It’s a bit superfluous.

By: James

James — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:20:03 +0000

I haven’t used it either, but I suspect it uses Cairo magic to be pretty fast, and switching tabs isn’t instantaneous either. Not that I’ll be using it if I have a choice (ie they have a pref to turn it off).

By: Pavel

Pavel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:48 +0000

Tabs are actually a workaround for the lack of window grouping functionality in the window manager. So they basically are windows. And tabs you currently dont see comply to iconised windows.

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:31:44 +0000

they’re being added to arora too :|