Emulate IE8 behavior?

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  1. Howie

    Member

    { #1 — 3 years ago }

    I really find value in the way IE8 handles colors with their tabs. Taken from the official IE8 Blog:

    Quote:
    In the trends described above, the related tabs (whether they are search results or news articles opened from the same website) would ideally not only be placed adjacent to one another but would also have some visual indication of being grouped together so that different tasks could be more easily identifiable. This is when colors came in to play.

    The idea behind tab grouping is that tabs originating from the same source are grouped together. The image below shows MSNBC with two articles from it opened in green, and a Windows Live search on Seattle restaurants with two search results from it opened in blue:

    Now with visual indicators on my tabs, I can quickly identify the groups of tabs that are related to different tasks. So if I am switching back to Internet Explorer after using another application, I will quickly identify the blue-colored tabs as information related to the hunt for a good restaurant.


    So... I wonder if you might include an option to only color tabs if another tab (or tabs) is opened from within the original (i.e., "open link in new tab")? The source tab and any tabs opened from links within would share the same color. This would be valuable to some FF users... kudos to MS for developing this one on their own (vs. copying the best from FF, Opera, Chrome-- which is generally the case with them).

    Thanks,

  2. Administrator

    Key Master

    { #2 — 3 years ago }

    Good suggestion. By the way you know who came up with the colors in the tabs first ;)

  3. Howie

    Member

    { #3 — 3 years ago }

    So...do you think this might be doable?

    Thanks,

  4. Administrator

    Key Master

    { #4 — 3 years ago }

    I think so but can't promise anything due to time constraints.

  5. Howie

    Member

    { #5 — 3 years ago }

    Hope you can get it done. I look forward to ColorfulTabs including this feature.

    Regards,

  6. Administrator

    Key Master

    { #6 — 2 years ago }

    This one is high on my priority now.

  7. Administrator

    Key Master

    { #7 — 2 years ago }

    This has been introduced as a feature in Firefox 3.6. Or was it 3.5?

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