• themusicman@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Out of curiosity, why? If it’s a knee-jerk reaction to change that’s completely understandable, but I can’t see anything to dislike about the feature itself

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      9 months ago

      I can already read the title of the page and see the favicon, so it actually doesn’t show new information. If I accidentally move my mouse there it covers a big part of the page i’m looking at

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        9 months ago

        If you have many tabs opened:

        I can already read the cropped title of the page and see the multiple favicon

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          9 months ago

          cropped title of the page

          To be super pedantic (sorry), that depends on how they’ve customized their UI. You can define a larger minimum tab width, if you’d like. Almost everything in Firefox is customizable.

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            9 months ago

            That is nice and yeah, I’m talking about the default experience you can get with Firefox for macOS, if it is any different in any other OS I wouldn’t know, now if you know about a good customizing guide I’d appreciate it…

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              9 months ago

              There’s a bunch of different ways you can customize it.

              • Default right click -> customize toolbars fore simple rearranging of toolbars, density setting and stuff
              • Changes made in about:config (such as “browser.tabs.tabMinWidth”)
              • And the most powerful but difficult, userChrome.css. The UI of Firefox is actually defined by CSS. More info: https://www.userchrome.org/

              EDIT: Oh and there are of course addons and themes too

      • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        When I shop online, I have many tabs from the same site open. The tab title is the store name + the item name, so the item name never fits. A bunch of identical ebay icons is way worse than this.

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          9 months ago

          I understand it may be useful for some people, but I’m simply not one of them

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            9 months ago

            But that’s not what you wrote. You claimed that it doesn’t show new information because you can see the favicon and title. It does show new information.

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      9 months ago

      Not OP but I’d do the same, for the simple reason that I find most overlays super distracting. It immediately triggers a need to see what’s underneath.

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      On top of the fact that those previews are annoying as hell as other comments pointed out, I want to add that this kind of feature also uses a fair amount of processing + memory.

      I think that is a nice opt-in feature for those who wants it but I like my default light and simple.

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      9 months ago

      I think it’s more that there really isn’t a need for this. If I’m not sure what a tab is I can always click on it. Chromium got this a while back and (even with minimal exposure to Chromium) I didn’t like it, it weirdly felt annoying and unnecessary.

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        9 months ago

        Because stock tab management is entirely useless…

        With this feature you can manage your tabs at least a bit better.