Confirmed users
187
edits
User:David Regev/Ubiquitous Firefox: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
User:David Regev/Ubiquitous Firefox (view source)
Revision as of 09:40, 10 January 2011
, 10 January 2011Copyedit
David Regev (talk | contribs) m (Copyedit) |
David Regev (talk | contribs) m (Copyedit) |
||
| Line 150: | Line 150: | ||
So, how does it work? These are the rest of its features: | So, how does it work? These are the rest of its features: | ||
* Forward history never disappears. Clicking on a link creates a new history item between the current page’s item and the next one in the history. | * Forward history never disappears. Clicking on a link creates a new history item between the current page’s item and the next one in the history. | ||
* Middle-clicking on links no longer spawns new tabs. The same goes for new tabs spawned forcibly by web pages. Instead, the new page is inserted into the history without the content area scrolling to that page automatically. This is the | * Middle-clicking on links no longer spawns new tabs. The same goes for new tabs spawned forcibly by web pages. Instead, the new page is inserted into the history without the content area scrolling to that page automatically. This is the functional equivalent of clicking on a link and quickly scrolling up a little. This allows the user to continue reading the current page until the end, at which point the unread page will be immediately available. | ||
* Such unread pages are distinguished visually. This is indicated by the darker background of unread history items in the mockup. The History Scroller’s persistent visibility allows this to be feasible, since all this information is no longer hidden behind the Back/Forward drop-down. | * Such unread pages are distinguished visually. This is indicated by the darker background of unread history items in the mockup. The History Scroller’s persistent visibility allows this to be feasible, since all this information is no longer hidden behind the Back/Forward drop-down. | ||
* If more than one background page are spawned, they get added in the order in which they were opened. | * If more than one background page are spawned, they get added in the order in which they were opened. | ||