Tab previews are in the works for a future release of Mozilla Firefox. In current versions of Firefox you hover your mouse over a non-active tab (i.e. any
In current versions of Firefox you hover your mouse over a non-active tab […] to see (after a small delay) a tooltip containing the web page title.
Uh… what is the point of that? If I am looking for a specific tab then:
I probably want to switch to the tab that I am looking for, so staying on the current one is not required
if there are a few tabs from different pages from the same domain the difference might be hard to see on a thumbnail (similar page headings with logos)
and most importantly: opening the tab is faster than waiting for the delay anyway
This sounds like a “cool” feature that’s looking for an actual problem to solve.
I suspect the small delay is just to prevent them from going crazy if you swing your mouse over the tab bar, it’s not going to be like a second or something. Sounds useful for the case of multiple tabs on the same site with similar titles, especially at higher resolutions.
Uh… what is the point of that? If I am looking for a specific tab then:
This sounds like a “cool” feature that’s looking for an actual problem to solve.
I suspect the small delay is just to prevent them from going crazy if you swing your mouse over the tab bar, it’s not going to be like a second or something. Sounds useful for the case of multiple tabs on the same site with similar titles, especially at higher resolutions.
It’s a second https://sopuli.xyz/comment/6926705
Ok… That’s too long. Weird decision.
came here looking for this exact comment. Agree with all point (last one most importantly).
Firefox team should look at what Arc browser is doing.