IE7 beta pic(thumbnail view of tabs)

Post by **shadd_** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:30 pm

that's just slick. can firefox do that or any other browser for that matter?

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:32 pm

ie? more like firebfox right!

LOLI HAET PIZZA!

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:33 pm

we need more shiny tabs, round buttons and extensive padding to maximize our internet experience, indeed

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:33 pm

did you hear the latest?

Post by **seremtan** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:43 pm

shadd_ wrote:

that's just slick. can firefox do that or any other browser for that matter?

nice, and FF can't do it, but what use is it? and will IE7 have DownThemAll or Adblock or Noscript or...etc etc?

Post by **shadd_** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:51 pm

hehe i should have noted i'm on firefox atm. this feature alone would not make me switch to IE.

i just found it to be a cool feature and one i would have a use for.

Post by **Foo** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:53 pm

I bet you'd find that you didn't use it.

Mainly because you can id the contents of a tab via the text description on the page.

The only instance where you can't id a page is where you have a lot of tabs all of the same site, and the page headers are all the same. In which case, that thumbnail view isn't going to help much because at such a small size all the pages are going to look the same.

A far better system would be having roll-down mouseover thumbnails on each tab header, so you hover your mouse over the tab and get the thumbnail of it.

However it's arguably just as easy to just click the tab. This doesn't seem like much of a time saver at all.

Post by **Ryoki** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:54 pm

what, no in-browser 3d elements? I want my 3d elements, goddamnit it's 2006 already and i'm noticing so far there's a general lack of robots and flying cars and 3d elements.

Post by **shadd_** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:55 pm

http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/vista/ie75299/

link to shot above plus a few more.

Post by **shadd_** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:11 pm

Foo wrote:I bet you'd find that you didn't use it.

Mainly because you can id the contents of a tab via the text description on the page.

The only instance where you can't id a page is where you have a lot of tabs all of the same site, and the page headers are all the same. In which case, that thumbnail view isn't going to help much because at such a small size all the pages are going to look the same.

A far better system would be having roll-down mouseover thumbnails on each tab header, so you hover your mouse over the tab and get the thumbnail of it.

However it's arguably just as easy to just click the tab. This doesn't seem like much of a time saver at all.

makes sense. however if you had a large monitor, 21" dell for example and the thumbnails were "live" so to speak. you could have multi-mini pages loaded into one browser window.

one of those dell 30" wide displays at 2560x1600 with live thumbnails would be sweet.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:13 pm

Well done MS, you've wrecked the look of both the new MSN and IE.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:13 pm

Ryoki wrote:what, no in-browser 3d elements? I want my 3d elements, goddamnit it's 2006 already and i'm noticing so far there's a general lack of robots and flying cars and 3d elements.

maybe youll get that when the quantum computers come out yeah?

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:14 pm

so thatll be next monday i think

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:37 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Well done MS, you've wrecked the look of both the new MSN and IE.

Yeah, the new msn is awful, i dunno what they were smoking but i'll be damned if i'm upgrading...

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:01 pm

maybe this one will be fully w3c compliant!
lol

Post by **Deathshroud** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:13 pm

seremtan wrote:
shadd_ wrote:

that's just slick. can firefox do that or any other browser for that matter?
nice, and FF can't do it, but what use is it? and will IE7 have DownThemAll or Adblock or Noscript or...etc etc?

Exactly, I want to be able to use my AdBlock, and BugMeNot.

Post by **Geebs** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:59 pm

Omniweb used pictures for tabs about 2 years ago

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:01 pm

so not only unoriginal, but not particularly useful. awesome.

Post by **BlueGene** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:48 pm

Here is a firefox extention that will allow you to view all the browser windows like in the ie preview screenshots.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... 10&id=1457

Post by **Foo** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:54 pm

I think that's hilarious.

Post by **Canis** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:59 pm

Firefox rocks.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:14 pm

FF has been really pissing me off, tis to slow

yet i can no longer live without tabbed browsing

Post by **BlueGene** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:17 pm

It's a cool little extention, not too bad on resources and can be used well if u have like 30 tabs open, also middle button close also works.

Post by **BlueGene** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:18 pm

losCHUNK wrote:FF has been really pissing me off, tis to slow

yet i can no longer live without tabbed browsing

Yeah they need to fix the memory leaks, make sure you don't have an old adblock it can cause more leaks. Try a full uninstall and reinstall it will keep all your settings.

Post by **4days** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:19 pm

Foo wrote:I think that's hilarious.

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