[Mageia-dev] Firefox prefs: insertRelatedAfterCurrent

Mon Mar 7 08:48:23 CET 2011

 On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 16:32:20 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote:
+> On 3/6/11, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> On 6 March 2011 21:11, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> I find myself in the same scenario quite regularly too (20+ tabs) 
+>>> and
+>>> find having the new tab at least quite close to the current one a
+>>> massive usability improvement.
+>>
+>> Indeed.
+>> The reverse is annoying.
+>>
+>>> It's also interesting to see the "reverse order argument" mentioned
+>>> previously doesn't always apply. There are some heuristics in there 
+>>> as
+>>> to whether it should be opened immediately to the right of the 
+>>> current
+>>> tab or after the other tabs that have been opened recently.
+>>
+>
+> Tabs should not extend "off the screenbut instead wrap and to 
+> multiple
+> rows, IMHO.
+
+ Then, it start to become more like a 2nd windows manager, and we go 
+ back to
+ the MDI metaphor of win95.
+
+ Another view would be that too much tabs is usually a sign that most of 
+ them
+ are not needed now, and should not be shown. But this requires a more 
+ high level
+ interface ( ie, sometimes that say "put the link to a 'read later' 
+ list" /
+ "place it with other easy to access documentation" rather than a very 
+ low
+ level operation like "open a new tab" to fullfill all possible
+ needs regarding opening a windows )
+
+-- 
+ Michael Scherer
+