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Pauan / tab-organizer

Google Chrome Extension that makes it easier to manage many tabs!
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Show thumbnails of the tab's content #143

Open Pauan opened 8 years ago

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 144

There are some other extensions like Panorama, Tab Sugar, TooManyTabs, etc. that show
a thumbnail of the tab's content in some way.

Personally, I think thumbnails take up a lot of space and don't really help much (I
might even go so far as to say that they hinder, because parsing a thumbnail is harder
than parsing a favicon/title).

Nonetheless, some users may want this feature, so I should consider adding it in as
an option. It'll be low priority though, for the reason mentioned above.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2011-06-07 10:39:21

Pauan commented 8 years ago 
Thank you considering this despite your personal views. I truly appreciate it.

Cheers

Reported by v5point0 on 2011-06-11 11:37:34

Pauan commented 8 years ago 
Of course. I want to make Tab Organizer the absolute best tab management extension possible,
so naturally that means taking other people's needs and desires into account.

Though, I don't have infinite motivation/time/energy, so unfortunately that means some
requests need to wait a long time, or might never be done. But I do try to include
things if other people want them, as evidenced by the many options in the Options page.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2011-06-12 08:45:42

Pauan commented 8 years ago 
I just found your extension (which so far seems to be the best tab management extension
by a country mile!) and had a thought about this.

What about showing the thumbnail for a tab on mouse hover? Solves the problem of taking
up a lot of space. Or perhaps a way of temporarily bringing a tab to the front a little
like Aero Peek in Windows 7?

For now I'm just putting the popup off to the side and clicking tabs to switch through
them (trying to trim down 100+ tabs I've opened in research today).

Reported by antcodd on 2011-10-16 12:23:40

Pauan commented 8 years ago 
Yes, that was my thought as well: showing it on mouse hover. I know that won't satisfy
everybody who wants this feature, but it'd probably be better than what we have right
now.

The problem is twofold:

1) My motivation for this project has plummeted close to 0 for some time now. Although
there are quite a few things I would like to add, and bugs to fix, Tab Organizer fulfills
my needs well enough that I simply do not feel a great need to work on it like I used
to.

2) Infrastructure. Given the way Chrome works, I suspect it will be somewhat tricky
to get thumbnails working *at all*, let alone designing the UI for it. The UI is relatively
easy compared to the infrastructure.

I don't really have a problem with others working on the project (it is open source,
after all), but nobody has stepped up, and I haven't asked anybody to.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2011-10-16 19:00:50

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-04-30 23:39:07

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 21:51:08

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:04:23

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:32:45

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:36:10

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:39:18

Pauan commented 8 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:47:28