Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
by zzalpha on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:28PM
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We'll, I can think of one obvious problem right off the bat: when you accumulate enough tabs they're no longer discoverable.
Many folks here have offered extensions or workarounds for making finding/searching tabs easier, but to me this is an issue introduced by the UI metaphor, and maybe better solved some other way.
Maybe.
I just observe that tabs seem to be a cumbersome tool for a very legitimate use case, and I gotta think there must be room to innovate.
Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
by Arelius on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:44PM
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Discoverability is a bit of a weird metric, if you have very few tabs you don't really need discoverability since you just put the tabs there. So this isn't really strictly worse when you have many tabs.
Sure, you're welcome to design it, I'll even give other methods a try occasionally, but for me every other metaphor has proved worse in some way and I'm perfectly happy working this way, there could be something better, but it isn't bad in a way that I feel needs to get fixed.