I would also agree with Thaddee that Panorama is very powerful tool that Firefox has. I would even go ahead and say that if anytime I would want to switch to Chrome, only this feature will be blocking me :)
Its sad that this feature, even though being there for so long, is not at all discoverable. The story worsens in Australis (as also pointed by Thaddee). I am pretty sure that all the "tab management" issues / requests that users were giving, would be fulfilled by Panorama and that they already did not know that such feature exists in Firefox by default. I think it would be much easier and worth it to investigate a little time in Panorama to make it discoverable and even more better than to look/experiment various other ways of tab management. PS: One clear way that (I think) Panorama wins over Tree style tabs is space consumption. While Panorama saves your vertical/horizontal space by hiding other groups, Tree style tabs takes more space than a normal tab bar. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Thaddee Tyl <thaddee....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:26 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Nicholas Nethercote < > > n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Jeff Griffiths < > jgriffi...@mozilla.com> > >> wrote: > >> > One of the things that really caught my ear though was some feedback > around > >> > browser features *besides* tools. Essentially, the developers in my > group > >> > were really concerned with tab management - they typically had lots > of open > >> > tabs with documentation, tools, news sites, and either wished Firefox > was > >> > better at managing tabs or had various techniques for managing large > amounts > >> > of tabs. > >> > >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ > >> > >> I really wish this was a core Firefox feature rather than an add-on, > >> so that more people could find out about it. > >> > > > > Couldn't agree more! Tree Style Tabs is absolutely essential to my > browser > > workflow. > > Without going so far as adding an add-on by default, I'd like to point > out that Tab Groups (ex-Panorama) would actually fit most people's > need, but: > > 1. Nobody knows about it. I'll freely admit it is very hard to > discover. I can't find it in the current menu, even though I know > about it. It will probably get worse in Australis. > 2. The rare people who know about it dislike it because they have to > click on the icon at the top right (which apparently they ended up > finding, I don't really know how). The shortcut, Ctrl-Shift-E, is > nowhere to be found. > > Note that having the button in the Australis menu with the shortcut in > the information bubble that pops up would solve both of those > problems. > > It solves so many problems so fast because: > > - Firefox doesn't load tabs from other tab groups upon start-up. > - Panorama has an immediately accessible search functionality. > Ctrl-Shift-E and start typing. > - Tab groups are remembered from device to device through Sync, making > it easy to browse through open tabs on another device. > - The position a tab group has is fixed, making it easy for you to > remember where everything is. > - Most people don't need three levels of inclusion (ie, a tree), > they're happy with simple groups. > _______________________________________________ > dev-developer-tools mailing list > dev-developer-to...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-developer-tools > -- Girish Sharma B.Tech(H), Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
