Wash your mouth out with soap. The availability of real estate is never an excuse to use it in Chrome :-P
I think we had discussed adding most visited/recently closed items here, sort of like a NTP without the NTP. -Ben On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Mike Pinkerton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Session history != global browser history. The back/forward buttons > don't get you anything outside of the current tab's session. > > Amanda's point about fitts' law is another good one. The History menu > is an easy way to get to something you visited recently with one click > (vs. the alternative of opening a new tab with history, scrolling > down, then hunting in the window for what you're looking for). Opening > up a new tab is also a huge context switch for the user as they have > to hide what they're currently looking at to peruse it. > > We have the real-estate in the menubar, we should use it providing we > can come up with a reasonable presentation that isn't too > overwhelming. > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Mark Larson (Google) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Just so it's clear to me... why do we need a History menu? >> There's a link to history from the wrench menu/Ctrl+H and also from the New >> Tab page. >> The >> back button provides at least 12 entries from the back history for the current tab. That seems more than >> adequate for the 'jump back a few steps in my click trail' use case. >> --Mark >> >> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 20:14, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Robert Sesek <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I think that Firefox's implemntation makes the most sense from a >>> > usability perspective. Those long menus in Safari are next to >>> > worthless if you have a decent-sized browsing history and really just >>> > clutter things up. Camino's implemntation isn't bad, either. That >>> > being said, I think 10 is too few items to include in the menu, and >>> > I'd like to see 15-20. >>> > >>> > Where do other people stand on this? >>> >>> I actively dislike long and hierarchical menus--for extended browsing, >>> we have a "History" link off of the new tab page for history browsing >>> & searching. >>> >>> However, a history menu with, say, the 10-15 most recent pages is >>> convenient for "go back a few steps in my click trail". More than 15 >>> or or so gets hard to pick from at a glance, though. >>> >>> --Amanda >>> >>> >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Mike Pinkerton > Mac Weenie > [email protected] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
