A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome. If you click “close” with your mouse, Chrome doesn’t resize the remaining tabs until you mouse away from the area. This means you can click “close” multiple times without having to chase the close button. I hadn’t noticed this, partly because Chrome doesn’t do it if you hit Command-W. They even switch the position of the close button in RTL languages such as Arabic.
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Lt. Gruber harps on the close button being on the wrong side for Mac, but where would the favicon go otherwise?
dmc - 11th December 2009 11:06 - #
From a visual interaction design point of view, Google Chrome's tabs are very well implemented, though, I use the middle mousebutton to close tabs, which skips the find-the-little-close-button part. Nevertheless, I still dislike Chrome's close-last-tab-closes-application behaviour.
23JUL - 11th December 2009 16:35 - #
Of the Mac web browser Safari has the unhonored distinction of being the worse for encouraging accidental closing a tab when you click to make
it the active tab. If you designers want to hide the close button, don't allow me to accidentally close the tab I'm trying to make active.
Generally, I think allowing single click close of background tabs to be a bad thing.
Lloyd Budd - 12th December 2009 22:05 - #
I'm using that right now!
I also like how the tabs shrink, and I can have about 100 open at once.
Michael Kozakewich - 16th December 2009 01:12 - #
Was totally stuck until I read this, now back up and rnunnig.
Blondie - 9th September 2011 11:29 - #
ugg pas cher - 29th October 2011 03:05 - #