162672 - Add support for tabbed history behaviour!!!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 131037

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Frederic Nilsson]

In order to surf effectively with alot of tabs you *need* to be able to rely on
some sort of behaviour that is inherently *logical* to a human.

Having tabs going from either left to right, or right to left, is not inherently
logical to most people, nor is it what they are used to. And when most people
surf they don't remember in which order they opened the tabs, making it
extremely hard to navigate the tabs (especially when you have alot of them opened).

Thus, if being on TAB#4 and then switching to TAB#6 (by Shift+PageUP/PageUp
(never releasing Shift) or by clicking on TAB#6 with the mouse) - the default
behaviour when either switching one step from TAB#6, or if closing TAB#6, should
be to be returned to TAB#4. Not TAB#5. Not TAB#7. TAB#4.

I have read some of the discussions on this and unfortunatly the developers of
tabbed browsing seem to have grown accustomed to other types of behaviour; so
they seem to have marked it WONTFIX. Which is unfortunate. Either because they
don't surf like I do (I *always* have like 10 sites open, and frequently switch
between two pages sometimes, if those pages are TAB#2 and TAB#12 then things get
messy and *very* irritating)...

I sincerely believe that incorporating a behaviour that mimics the Windows
Start-bar behaviour is the best thing. It's extremely efficient. It's logical
(because you always keep in mind the last few tabs you were on, and only if you
have to go more than 3 or 4 steps you have to actually read what the labels on
the tabs are). 

And most important of all - it's what most (99%) of all users are *used to*. It
works, the current implementation obviously doesn't (as I know we're alot of
people who get alot of headache from it).

So my proposal is this, can't you implement several types of behaviour and then
let the users chose? Why are you forcing this (obviously controversial)
implementation down on us?

If not... can anyone point me to a tabbed browsing project that are planning to
adress this?

Oh, and I'd like to be able to remap Ctrl+TAB to replace Shift+PgUp, but that's
for another request I guess.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

> So my proposal is this, can't you implement several types of behaviour and then
> let the users chose?

Yes, we can't. See bug 131037.

>                      Why are you forcing this (obviously controversial)
> implementation down on us?

In order to maintain the pretence that tabs are not MDI.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131037 ***

Comment 2

[Wesha]

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