Firefox/3.0 Windows Default Theme Issues: Difference between revisions

= Insufficient when Handling Multiple Pages =

Current browsers make it difficult for a user to manage more than eight pages, yet it's not uncommon to see people with 15+ tabs. [[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511493.aspx The Vista user experience guidelines]] state that if there are more than eight tabs that they should be horizontal.

Information shouldn't be sorted in a heterogeneous way, that's way tabs are movable. Although they are movable they are not automatically sortable, by default a user has to manually sort tabs. Sorting tabs becomes even more difficult when all tabs aren't visible, you can't group or even go between similar pages when researching if you forgot that you have that page open, unless you see it.

The solution to this would involve asking which interface native to Windows would serve their function better. There are a couple possible solutions:

<ol><li>Manage pages with images the way Windows 7/Mac OS manage windows</li><li>Manage pages like an ordered list, instead of the unordered format it has now, like file browsers do in Windows 7/Mac OS.</li><li>Allow pages to have tags (or better yet create a service that does this for you by domain).</li><li>Allow pages to be categorized like they are in Windows/Mac OS with their tree style sidebar.</li><li>Let the bookmarks be their own page instead of another window or bar</li></ol>

How different browsers manage multiple (at least 10) pages:

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