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http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5569#c7 On Jan 13, 12:28 pm, Itai <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a number of discussions which mention Tab Previews as a > desirable feature. To get everyone to the same page: A Tab Preview is > a small image which shows the contents of a tab and appears when the > mouse is placed over any non-selected tab. The present state is that, > when the mouse pointer is over a tab, Chromium shows the title of the > page in a standard tooltip. > > Tab Previews are useful for identifying tabs without selecting them > when either tab titles are not descriptive enough or when enough tabs > are opened that their titles cannot be read. At its simplest > implementation, the Tab Preview feature simply adds a the thumbnail > within the tooltip which is shown for non-selected windows. A Tab > Preview is not shown when hovering over the selected window's tab > because it would be redundant and may hide portions of the viewed web > page. In Chrome, the thumbnail added could easily be the same > thumbnail we use for the most visited pages in the New Tab Page. > > The most important question is: Can someone find a reason why this > would hinder usability? That is, if we added this feature, would there > be a compelling reason to turn it off? > > The second question, which is something we can do even after > implementing the simple approach, is can we do better and make tab > previews even more useful? > > Being partial to Tab Previews, my personal take is that the preview > itself is extremely useful because titles quickly become too small to > display with 10 to 20 tabs and that this feature helps identify tabs > quickly. It would be nice if we could take this further and offer > previews elsewhere too. > > For previously visited links for example. It happens that I go back to > a page and forgot which link had what I was looking for. If hovering > over a visited link, it would be a lesser problem. It would not be > done for non-visited links for latency issues and not to trigger > unwanted requests. > > Bookmarks are another place where previews would be very useful, if I > don't bother editing bookmark titles, a lot of bookmarks end up with > similar titles like 'homepage' or 'welcome'. Yahoo's bookmarking > service offers such previews based on when they last crawled the site. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
