Comment #2 on issue 30122 by [email protected]: Antifeature: Tab glow follows mouse pointer http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=30122
I neglected to mention that this antifeature has a nonzero cost. The highlighting lags noticeably behind the mouse. I have ten tabs at the moment; if I simply run the mouse pointer over the tabs once from left to right, Chrome is still lighting up tab #4 or #5 when my mouse is on tab #10. Tooltips come up for tabs I'm not pointing at. I tried moving the mouse over the tabs 3 times and then going back to my content. Over 15 seconds later, Chrome is still highlighting and unhighlighting tabs and X-buttons at random, and popping up tooltips at random. And I can't interact with the web page until Chrome is finished messing around with the tabs. Before you make a decision, I hope that you consider some of these questions: - What user goal does this feature support? - What information does this give users that they didn't already have? - What does this feature do to the user's attention? - What effect does this feature have on the perceived responsiveness of Chrome? - What are the costs of maintaining and debugging this feature? - What are the costs of testing this feature? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
