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Show thumbnails of the tab's content #144

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pcxunlimited@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2011 at 10:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thank you considering this despite your personal views. I truly appreciate it.

Cheers

Original comment by v5point0 on 11 Jun 2011 at 11:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 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.

Original comment by pcxunlimited@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2011 at 8:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 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).

Original comment by antc...@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2011 at 12:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 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.

Original comment by pcxunlimited@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2011 at 7:00

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