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By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:55:07 +0000

"the Windows “sunrise” notfier that emerges from the taskbar (what’s it called officially?)"

That's a toast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(computing)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:04:21 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/3919

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By: Jamey

Jamey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:50:38 +0000

Wait till u try Flock
25+ tabs open easy

By: mahemoff

mahemoff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:40:10 +0000

Windows are okay, but require OS-based window management, which is (a) tedious; (b) platform-specific, so confusing when you switch between platforms (many of us have to use Windows at times). I like the fact that with tabs, everything happens in the one window, and the same could be said for “virtual tabspaces”.

By: Mike McG

Mike McG — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:17:53 +0000

Re: Virtual Desktop. Use multiple windows. Each window represents a a separate desktop/workspace.

By: Guy Fraser

Guy Fraser — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:37:09 +0000

Re colour and stuff: I'd prefer my tabs not to be coloured TBH. I tried a FF extension that heatmaped tabs based on when they were last accessed and found it utterly confusing.

It would be useful to see which tabs contained places that are in my bookmarks - ie. highlight my favourite tabs.

The JavaScript events would, I guess, also allow the content of the tab to go in to idle mode when the user is not looking at the tab - having a way of js asking "am I active?" would be useful as in many cases I open new background tabs which wouldn't get the events of tab de/activation.

Another thing that might be useful is tab grouping - eg. group tabs from a similar domain and show a little "down arrow" on the right of the tab that allows you to select the other pages you have open from the same domain (a bit like the down arrow in the main search box where you select search engine). For mac heads, you could display a "fan or grid" of page thumbnails when you hover over the tab "folder"?

By: Dok

Dok — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:26:20 +0000

"Javascript onEntered()/onExited()

window.onfocus / window.onblur

works perfectly in IE7. A little flawed in FF and Opera but that can probably be corrected.