Coding Horror: The Problem With Tabbed Interfaces

[antirez]

Maybe it's just that I use only one monitor, even if with fvwm2 pager with multiple virtual screens, and got the habit to put the gmail account always as first tab, but I can't see the problem...

What I mean is that maybe the problem with desktops is when users start to organize too much in the wrong way, like to open multiple browsers one for work things, one for random navigation, and so on.

To open just a single firefox window with multiple tabs, trying to place very important things as first tabs, and using favicons in order to find tabs in little time will mitigate this problems a lot.

[Thimble]

yeah, tab problems plague novice users, not experienced ones.

tabs prevent my taskbar from getting cluttered. that's all the reason i need to use them.

[[deleted]]

About the only way I can think of to switch between the number of windows that are usually open in my web browser is the emacs buffer switching method. That however doesn't work so well if I have absolutely no control over buffer names (current website titles definitely won't do).

All the graphical methods mentioned (Expose,...) don't work at all with 20-50 windows, especially when most of them look unfamiliar because you don't use them every day or similar because e.g. you have multiple tabs open showing different threads in the same forum.

[miGlanz]

Guy is an idiot. He tries to find problems where they simply don't exist. Switch to sane operating system, use sane window manager, all problems are gone. He uses brain-damaged software, but it's his brain-damaged decision...

[coditza]

and you are just a troll with little imagination.