What about a "cover flow"-like solution? As you hover the mouse on a (minimized) tab, it would expand to show the full title. Something like:
/'\/'\/'\/'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\ ... and /'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\/'\/'\ In this way you can easily shuffle through your tabs without *any additional UI complication* On Feb 1, 1:27 am, Rahul Pawa <[email protected]> wrote: > tab thumbnail previews were discussed on a different thread. > The basic consensus there was that thumbnail previews would hinder usability > by covering up parts of the current tab. And such thumbnail previews would > be useless because it would still be generally faster to click the tab to > open it rather than wait an extra 2-3 seconds for the preview to appear. > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Hunnter2k3 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why not have a drop-down menu at the end? > > Drop-down menus are always useful > > If i could, i would condense all the tabs into one icon on the taskbar > > to free up even more space. > > > I guess the only real way would to be to have options for users > > tastes. > > > 1) Scrolling with arrows > > 2) Mutliple Rows > > 3) Drop-down at end > > > As a possible better solution, tab preview on hover. > > Extend the tooltip to full on preview. > > It might add a tiny hint of slowness and larger memory footprint, but > > it would be much more useful for identifying a tab you want to access > > when you can't read the title and the tooltip(s) is/are too > > ambiguous / similar. (such as browsing a lot of pictures at once, > > usually sites only tend to have the site name as the title) > > While tab order tends to be much easier to remember, most people > > really don't remember... > > > I guess it really depends if you want to put the effort into adding > > this, or adding the ability for the browser interface to be remodelled > > to create this. > > And to be honest, i'd prefer the latter, because interface > > modification support is a much better use of time when most people > > probably don't care much for a feature that could be extended using a > > plugin. > > -- > Rahul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
