Mario, I think you're replying to the wrong thread. This is a discussion about Tab preview thumbnails, not about Free Download Managers. That was a different thread.
Rahul On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Mario <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sorry Brian I am to ignorant to understand your message. My question > wase only if whit crhome there is a possibility to set it up in a certain > manner so that when I download a file or anything else, I can use the > program "Free Download Manager". Sorry I am not of English father language > and this does not make me very clear to explain myself. I apologise for > this. I thank you very much for your prompt reply. > RegardsMario Ellena Zaina > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Brian Rakowski <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:51 PM > *Subject:* [chromium-discuss] Re: Tab Preview > > Sorry, I'm confused about where you are proposing to place a thumbnail > without covering any controls or content. Could you send a screenshot or > mockup? > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Itai <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> A well implemented Tab Preview (see SeaMonkey or Multizilla) does not >> appear for the active tab >> and therefore does not cover the page being shown. It appears in the >> same place as the tooltip >> which Chrome currently has, just a little bigger. So the mouse cursor >> is always above the preview >> which does not block interaction in any way. >> >> - Itai >> >> On Jan 13, 5:56 pm, Brian Rakowski <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I believe tab previews hinder usability because the larger overlay >> including >> > the thumbnail is often accidentally invoked, covering the page or >> browser >> > controls I am trying to use. >> > In my experience using tab previews, they look cool but aren't actually >> > useful since invoking them takes a longer hover than it would take to >> just >> > switch tabs. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, dhhwai <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > You can add a STAR to the following bugs to be notified of updates: >> > >> > >http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5617 >> > >> > >http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5569#c7 >> > >> > > On Jan 13, 12:28 pm, Itai <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > We have a number of discussions which mention Tab Previews as a >> > > > desirable feature. To get everyone to the same page: A Tab Preview >> is >> > > > a small image which shows the contents of a tab and appears when the >> > > > mouse is placed over any non-selected tab. The present state is >> that, >> > > > when the mouse pointer is over a tab, Chromium shows the title of >> the >> > > > page in a standard tooltip. >> > >> > > > Tab Previews are useful for identifying tabs without selecting them >> > > > when either tab titles are not descriptive enough or when enough >> tabs >> > > > are opened that their titles cannot be read. At its simplest >> > > > implementation, the Tab Preview feature simply adds a the thumbnail >> > > > within the tooltip which is shown for non-selected windows. A Tab >> > > > Preview is not shown when hovering over the selected window's tab >> > > > because it would be redundant and may hide portions of the viewed >> web >> > > > page. In Chrome, the thumbnail added could easily be the same >> > > > thumbnail we use for the most visited pages in the New Tab Page. >> > >> > > > The most important question is: Can someone find a reason why this >> > > > would hinder usability? That is, if we added this feature, would >> there >> > > > be a compelling reason to turn it off? >> > >> > > > The second question, which is something we can do even after >> > > > implementing the simple approach, is can we do better and make tab >> > > > previews even more useful? >> > >> > > > Being partial to Tab Previews, my personal take is that the preview >> > > > itself is extremely useful because titles quickly become too small >> to >> > > > display with 10 to 20 tabs and that this feature helps identify tabs >> > > > quickly. It would be nice if we could take this further and offer >> > > > previews elsewhere too. >> > >> > > > For previously visited links for example. It happens that I go back >> to >> > > > a page and forgot which link had what I was looking for. If hovering >> > > > over a visited link, it would be a lesser problem. It would not be >> > > > done for non-visited links for latency issues and not to trigger >> > > > unwanted requests. >> > >> > > > Bookmarks are another place where previews would be very useful, if >> I >> > > > don't bother editing bookmark titles, a lot of bookmarks end up with >> > > > similar titles like 'homepage' or 'welcome'. Yahoo's bookmarking >> > > > service offers such previews based on when they last crawled the >> site. >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
