mozilla / lightbeam

Orignal unmaintained version of the Lightbeam extension. See lightbeam-we for the new one which works in modern versions of Firefox.
https://github.com/mozilla/lightbeam-we
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Change colour of connected sites when mouse-over a site (as currently hard to clearly see all connected sites) #685

Open SentineI opened 9 years ago

SentineI commented 9 years ago

Sites are shown as a tangle of interconnecting lines, so it's hard or impossible to see whether some sites are connected to others by their lines (due to various reasons such as being hidden behind other big sites, or barely touching other sites, or connected at weird angles such that it's unclear what they are suppose to be connected to).

A simple solution would be that when I mouse-over a site (such that it's domain name pops up), both that site & all it's connected sites (and the lines connecting them) would change colour. Then you'd instantly be able to see what's connected to what. Possibly this should only happen for third-party connected sites, as those are most relevant.

tukoz commented 8 years ago

Sentinel's description is fine, and so is its suggestion (I came here with the same actually).

Connections are very important to see quick and clear. Actualy nods are nothing without their connections and to "get" a node I just need to see his connections clearly. I suggest blod, alpha or color to achieve this.

tukoz commented 8 years ago

Actually Collusion showed connections in a clearer way, making non-related connections disappear when hovering any domain. That allows to eg. learn on the third-parties sharing with each other. or grasp Google double-click's web in seconds: Google double-click's web (full-scale img) Collusion-0.26 default display (full scale img)