Talk:Tabbed Browsing

I always thought it would be nice to have the ability to go between multiple firefox windows and tabs. In other words, it would be great if you could turn a window into a tab and turn a tab into a window.

I don't know, just an idea. What do you guys think?

--Mattwj2002 10:15, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)

• It would be cool if you could "rip" a tab out of a window by dragging it out of the browser and dropping it into another window, or dropping it outside of Firefox to turn it into a new window.

Kroc 14:44, 27 Jan 2006 (PST)

I'd like to second that idea. In my browsing session, I typically use both, multiple windows and multiple tabs. A window is typically used to group related things. During browsing, I often come to the point where I'd like to regroup my opened sites. Sadly, with the current user interface, in most cases that's not worth the efford.

--dirkh 17:27, 08 Feb 2006 (CET)

Whoops, somehow missed noticing the above... that's the same thing I just said below re use cases. Yes, I think dragging tags between windows or into new windows would be a very nice behaviour that doesn't require any additional UI encrustation.

Quen 02:30, 9 Feb 2006 (PST)

Resizable tab content

I think it would be cool if the user can manipulate the size of the window area per tab. This would be useful when you need to change the width of the page you're reading, say, for those with very long texts (and not fixed width pages).

--Jangelo 13:09, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)

Sounds like a good idea, it would also be cool to be able to have several pages open at the same time in one firefox window. And better yet, to be able to move them around

--T0rus 07:46, 27 Jan 2006 (PST)

Tab Sizes

It would also be helpful to enlarge the tab when mouse pointer is over it, kinda like the bottom menu in Mac OS --T0rus 07:43, 27 Jan 2006 (PST)

Other use cases

It seemed to me that none of the three listed use cases really represent what I do, which is categorised tabbed browsing. I use several browser windows and certainly don't have 20 tabs open at once, but use tabs to group related activities. For example, if I'm reading a forum, I'll middle-click to open a whole bunch of threads to read, so I might have 5 or so tabs in that window; but there won't be any tabs not related to the forum. If I want to do something else I'll have another window. similarly, I use a single window to read webcomics in, but open them all in tabs frm a bookmarks folder. Dunno how common this is but anyhow I think it's a pretty hardcore use that doesn't involve '20 tabs at once' - or rather, it does, but they're in different windows.

(Using multiple windows is still a big UI advantage because it uses the OS taskbar mechanism so it's easier to see & switch. Of course, winxp default 'make my taskbar useless' setting somewhat defeats this, but...)

Quen 02:30, 9 Feb 2006 (PST)