This is great news! I am forced to use Chrone for work and this is the best new feature they’ve shipped in a while. So handy for video meetings where I also want to take notes or have have some other reference doc handy.
I hope that isn't a simple drop down selector listing all tabs... feature might be a complete non-starter for some of us with a few too many open tabs.
I've always wondered why Firefox don't grab hold of the "renegade" space they already occupy, with confidence through their existing users, an alternative and genuinely independent browser down to the engine. They are the market leaders of non-webkit, a huge strength among chromium copycat popup shops with identical wins and failures... or do I have to write the TV ad as well?
I feel confident to assume the majority of dedicated Firefox users will read and think of this feature release, et al most new features as of late, as trivial. The true benefit of using Firefox in itself isn't "ease of planning camping trips" but something much more.
It's completely useless. Chrome had it first, and I already hated it there. Now when you rightclick, it takes the place of the "open in new tab" option that people have been using for ages.
Who comes up with these fooken bad decisions? And why does Firefox feel the need to copy every questionable idea that Chrome's dev team pushes out?
At this point, it would be better to just let users customize their own browser UI. The current situation is a complete mess.
And the new YouTube player... What a disaster. There are endless articles about performance metrics, first paint times, and how high the hiring bar is, but the end result just feels bad. All that hard work gets overshadowed by strange UI and UX choices that make the experience worse.
Meanwhile, regulators don't seem to step in, and companies like Google just keep going without much resistance.
Honestly, it feels like everything is moving in the wrong direction. So it's time to summon Godzilla or the aliens from The Abyss and let them rip.
Konqueror (KDE's original hybrid web browser/file manager) had it first, implemented in 1999 ( https://invent.kde.org/search?group_id=1551&project_id=2544&... ) and it supports arbitrary tiling. Oh by the way, Chrome's rendering engine (called blink nowadays, KHTML once) also originated from KDE.
Implementation details and UX in general is a cluster fsck of sad stories though, can confirm. Try/adapt zen browser maybe?
I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along.
Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers:
- OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually.
- A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other window management features with maximum video size within the window.
> Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along.
Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the top of windows, so you could have multiple windows stacked, but with their tabs visible on the top, but I don't recall a split-view.
- Windows like Snap Assist where you tile one browser tab to one half of the screen and then it shows a preview of all other tabs and you pick one to tile to the other half of the screen.
I've been pretty happy with ditching tabs altogether. I don't get the idea of tabs. Desktop manager already has workspaces and windows, do I really need yet another abstraction ?
I use split view all the time, but with two browser windows.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 43.6 ms ] threadI feel confident to assume the majority of dedicated Firefox users will read and think of this feature release, et al most new features as of late, as trivial. The true benefit of using Firefox in itself isn't "ease of planning camping trips" but something much more.
Who comes up with these fooken bad decisions? And why does Firefox feel the need to copy every questionable idea that Chrome's dev team pushes out?
At this point, it would be better to just let users customize their own browser UI. The current situation is a complete mess.
And the new YouTube player... What a disaster. There are endless articles about performance metrics, first paint times, and how high the hiring bar is, but the end result just feels bad. All that hard work gets overshadowed by strange UI and UX choices that make the experience worse.
Meanwhile, regulators don't seem to step in, and companies like Google just keep going without much resistance.
Honestly, it feels like everything is moving in the wrong direction. So it's time to summon Godzilla or the aliens from The Abyss and let them rip.
Implementation details and UX in general is a cluster fsck of sad stories though, can confirm. Try/adapt zen browser maybe?
Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers:
- OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually.
- A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other window management features with maximum video size within the window.
Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the top of windows, so you could have multiple windows stacked, but with their tabs visible on the top, but I don't recall a split-view.
I use split view all the time, but with two browser windows.