Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews - OMG! Ubuntu
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Tab previews are in the works for a future release of Mozilla Firefox. In current versions of Firefox you hover your mouse over a non-active tab (i.e. any
  • infeeeee@lemm.ee
    628·
    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

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      If you have many tabs opened:

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

      • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        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.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          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…

          • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
            2·
            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
      52·
      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.

      • infeeeee@lemm.ee
        33·
        9 months ago

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

        • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
          5·
          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.