Issue 188: UI: tab overflow
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=188

Comment #17 by figaro1111:
Comment #12 said "No need to reinvent the wheel,". I personally think that  
there is
room for a new idea here(Or maybe that's because I have a new idea for the  
wheel.
:P). Besides, isn't that what chrome is all about, starting out fresh;  
trying things
differently in an experimental way?

I have a few crazy/different ideas.

1: Some kind of dragable and flickable area above the tabs, instead of <  
and >
arrows. This way it'll be more responsive to navigate this virtual plan and  
wont take
much thought for the user, it wont be intrusive. I've never liked the  
arrows in
firefox because it felt like clicking several times to get to the tab that  
you want
takes more clicks then it should. Of course this drag area doesn't have to  
be visible
at all times. For example, in a maximized window it can only be visible  
when you
place your cursor at the very top pixels of the screen.

2: Another idea I had in mind was some kind of visual layout that gives a  
wide,
clear, scope of all the tabs we have up. A while back when a version of  
Safari came
out for windows I thought that it would be cool to have coverflow in as  
tabs, but
that would be pointless eyecandy. But sense chrome stores thumbnails of  
websites on
your local drive then this is could be possible.
  Coverflow would be a little to intense, for slower computers, so maybe a  
thumbnail
view of some kind with the title above the thumbnail in the tab. Just  
another idea.

3: Comment #14 mentioned a maximum number of tabs per window, which is an  
idea I had
in mind also. But when a window is full the + button could change into a  
button which
says full and when you click that it'll open a new window, or something  
like that.
This idea isn't so great though because some people will want to have all  
their tabs
scrunched into one window, rather then clutter their taskbar.

My point though is that it should be played with to find the most intuitive  
route
that will fit most everyones browsing experience. That's agreeable right?



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