![]() Safari is now low on my list of browsers as well because of their lack of favicon and that Opera is becoming a better browser to use. It makes it easier to find the tab you’re looking for in a sea of other tabs, like my dad who usually has about 50 of them open without grouping them with Firefox Panorama (which is an awesome feature). The favicon is a great way to establish the tab differences. They still score low on our standards though…I think IE will be obsolete in another couple years unless they come out with something huge that will blow every other browser away, like supporting everything possible and more.Īnyway, sorry for rambling on about IE and how it sucks, this is a good post. It’s a way to compete with the other browsers. Instead of stacking the tabs and the URL bar, they put them side by side to lessen the amount of space taken up by the browser. This basically is IE’s way of getting more page space out of the user window. I just looked at screenshots of IE 9 on Google. This full bar also made it easier to move the entire window (since dragging in the tab means pulling the tab off into a new window), you have to get really creative with your mouse on the tiny 4-5 px edge left to actually grab the window and move it. The main advantage of that was being able to see the full title without having to hover and wait for the tooltip (I know from your recent Pseodo Elements talks that you totally love those native tooltips -), not! ) in order to see the full title. Once in the full-width bar on top (in which the close/minimize/maximize controls are) and once in side the tab. In one of the earlier betas for Firefox and Safari there used to be a title bar above the tab bar (the tab bar was still above the address bar, the title was simply shown twice. I find interesting how browsers have dropped the full-width title bar though. This plugin adds a bunch of features that should have been in Safari to begin with as far as Im concerned: automatic re-opening of tabs when you start Safari, auto-closing the download window. Was the IE also taken at 1200px by the way ? Looks a lot smaller and doesn’t look like anything recent either (is that IE8 or IE9 on Windows XP or Windows 7 ? Looks more like IE6 or IE7 on Windows 98 with an 800×600 monitor :P) This weeks mac techmail is Enhance Safari with Glims plug-in which discusses the free Glims plugin for Safari. Safari should get over it and put favicons in the tabs.Unless you have a ton of Safari traffic (remember, your site’s stats are the only ones that matter.) You can largely count on the favicon to identify your site so don’t start with site title, start with the next most significant thing.You don’t have much room, make it count.Every browser puts tabs on the top (above URL bar) except Safari.Every browser shows favicons except Safari.IE 9 starts shrinking at 4 tabs and at 6 tabs only an average of 3 characters are shown per tab.All browsers maintain this 26 visible character average until about 5 tabs, then that number shrinks. ![]() You get an average of 26 visible characters per tab if the user has 1-3 tabs open at around 1200px ( average for this site).Firefox 6 Chrome 15 Opera 11 Safari 5 Internet Explorer 9 Some facts I opened up the same 6 tabs in current versions of all the desktop browsers, then took screenshots of the UI of just the tabs themselves.
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