[Camino] [SOC] Improvements to the Camino tabbed-browsing experience

[Ricky]

I know this isn't exactly tabs but it's related...

I'd love a better Single Window Mode.

On 5/27/06, Ruurd Koons <ruurd at orakel.ods.org> wrote:
> On 27-05-2006 09:43:00 +0100, Desmond Elliott wrote:
> > Hello, I am Camino's Summer of Code student. I have been accepted by the
> > Mozilla Foundation to overhaul the current tabbed-browsing code this summer.
>
> Gongrats!  Happy hacking :D
>
> > I would like you to reply to this topic every zany, inventive, interesting
> > idea that you've ever had about tabbed-browsing, or that you've ever wanted
> > to see in a tabbed-browsing environment and we (the rest of the developers)
> > will decide if anything suggested should be implemented.
>
> Two things I can think of are:
> - re-order the tabs (already covered by your proposal)
> - keep Z-order of tabs
>
> On the last one, I'll expand a little here:
> You have say three tabs in your window, numbered 1, 2, 3 from left to
> right. Tab 1 has focus and you switch to tab 3.  If you now close tab
> 3, Camino will give focus to the tab to the left of 3, which is 2,
> instead of 1 which I would have liked.
> Rationale is as follows:
> I often open links in a new tab, especially when I'm on a page that has
> a list of links that I want to visit all.  Sometimes such page is on tab
> 1, while another page is on tab 2.  So the links I open from tab 1,
> appear in (a new) tab 3.  Then closing tab 3 (because I'm done with it)
> returns me to tab 2, which I don't need at that moment.
> I think this "feature" is known as Z-order, where the tabs are stacked
> in the order of the last focus.  On each focus, the position of the tab
> in the stack is raised to the top.  On removal of a tab, the focus goes
> to the tab that is one level below in the stack, or one up if the tab is
> the last one.
>
>
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> Ruurd - runs Mac OS X 10.4.6, uses Vim
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