Comments on: Firefox New Tab: Next Iteration

By: Rand al'Thor

Rand al'Thor — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:33:56 +0000

Would it be possible to have an option to put some toolbars on the the “new tab” instead of having the top/header thing ,of the browser takeup more space .
Perhaps there could be a button to show/hide them

By: Lucas David-Roesler

Lucas David-Roesler — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:57:23 +0000

I really like this design: http://www.flickr.com/photos/azaraskin/3361919588/sizes/l/

Though I would prefer recently closed tabs in the top left vs. recent search terms. Though the best would be the possibly to customize it to some degree. Maybe we could choose between having recent tabs or recent searches in that corner.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:29:23 +0000

I really like the concept. Any suggestions on getting this to work in Tab Mix Plus? Such as what to type in the user location for opening a new tab? Thanks. I appreciate the work.

Jason

By: earlabs

earlabs — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:22:21 +0000

It’s a bit minimal… I am not a hardcore tabbist and so feel a bit clumsy using this. The list with sites is longer than my screen is high. I hate it when the screen is only partly used, esecially when I know that there are other links that I cannot reach. There are multiple links with the same name but leading to a different page on the site. I cannot find the functions that are in the examples above. The screen sample under the caption “”current design” I cannot see.

By: Michael Rosenberg

Michael Rosenberg — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:51:49 +0000

I think that this can be very useful and I love it in chrome. There are bugs in the order switching of the sites. And it’d be cool if the movement wasn’t so rigid, if you could make a smooth animation iphone esque. Otherwise, great stuff.

By: T K

T K — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:01:16 +0000

Removing the close tab function where only one tab is opened is a mistake. If one has “Show my windows and tabs from last time” set closing Firefox ensures that the next time you start it you get the last tab loaded even though you may not have wanted to see it again. The right behavior is to allow closing the last tab and the browser separately as it happened in the previous versions. This has the added benefit of closing the last tab to get a fresh tab if you are done with the current content and would like all the flash, etc. to be unloaded.

Closing the browser when trying to close the last tab is equally annoying. It is equivalent to closing the browser with the last tab still showing content. For a discussion of why firefox should revert to the previous tab behavior see above.

By: omer kirk

omer kirk — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:31:25 +0000

I think the the last three choices with thumbnails makes the page really useful especially with links to certain net utilities such as gmail.

But the choice of with or without thumbnails should be left to the user. For instance I can sacrifice a little speed for a little looks, other than that I think for some users thumbnails will be much more clearer than basic text and favicons.

The idea of adding a ubiquity search bar is brilliant, it would be really useful.

Also I think adding the bookmarks list, would make it perfect, the bookmarks sidebar takes up space and with the new tab page that problem would be solved.

The extension shaping up to be a very good one. Keep up the good work.

By: kmc

kmc — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:47:47 +0000

I strongly support Norse’s comments. Yet, if I accidentally removed something useful from the list, I should be able to add it back from the “+” button. Until I choose to add it back, it should be gone forever.

I know it’ll lead to the need of configuration, and I think the actual algorithm is simple because it’s based on frecency. But what about adding a penalty to it, like using an external text file as “black list”?

By: Norse

Norse — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:04:59 +0000

1. Remember what a user does on the page. Any Wikipedia page that shows up loads the RSS feed for Wikipedia which is completely useless, I change the number of items to show to 0 and when I restart Firefox it starts showing three items again.

2. If I remove something I don’t want it to show up again, ever. (Related to #1)

3. There is a massive amount of unused space on the right-hand side.

I like the way Chrome did it, give 9 thumbnails for the most visited sites and provide a list of recent bookmarks and recently closed tabs/windows.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:42:18 +0000

Definitely with Thumbnails, frequently used and recently closed would be good.