Μετά την κυκλοφορία του Chrome 69 με ένα νέο περιβάλλον εργασίας πολλοί από τους χρήστες της εφαρμογής αντιλήφθηκαν ότι η Google it was trying to copy the old Firefox environment.
Google developers seem to want to add two other Firefox features to Chrome: tab groups and the scrollable tabs bar.
Both are currently in development and we do not know when we will see them coming to the stable version of Chrome, at least for the time being.
The news broke earlier this weekteam, when a reporter from the Chrome Story blog noticed a problem in Chrome issue tracker with the name “tab groups”.
The Google developer who posted the problem didn't exactly describe how operation of the upcoming feature, but said that "users can organize tabs into visually distinct groups, for tabs related to different tasks."
The description of the feature is quite vague, but it is worth noting that the Mozilla Foundation had a similar feature in Firefox 2010. This feature allowed users to organize tabs within groups, displaying only one tab of each group.
The feature was great for users who liked working with dozens or hundreds of tabs, but Firefox developers removed it at the end of 2015 because it was used by very few users.
Google, on the other hand, could add the tab grouping mechanism used by the Vivaldi browser. It is not too long to wait and see.
Addition supports for tab groups makes sense, as it will help improve the tab stacking that Chrome experiences.
Tab crowding occurs when you open too many tabs, which indirectly leads to the reduction of the width of each tab. This makes it impossible to read the tab title or projection του favicon της ιστοσελίδαs. And finding a page among dozens of tiny tabs is terribly annoying.
Ωστόσο, ο Chrome δεν είναι ο μόνος browser που αντιμετωπίζει το συγκεκριμένο πρόβλημα σχεδίασης. Οι browsers Vivaldi, Opera, και Brave, έχουν ακριβώς την ίδια συμπεριφορά, ενώ ο Firefox και Edge τις Microsoft δεν το κάνουν. Και τα δύο προγράμματα περιήγησης χρησιμοποιούν μια mode που ονομάζεται κύλιση στη γραμμή καρτελών (scrollable tabs bar), η οποία διατηρεί το πλάτος της καρτέλας σε ένα συγκεκριμένο ελάχιστο μέγεθος, αλλά επιτρέπει στον χρήστη να ψάχνει αριστερά και δεξιά χρησιμοποιώντας τα βελάκια κύλισης.
According to Techdows, Google will add a similar feature to an upcoming version of Chrome. "The scrollable tabs bar is in development", said Peter Casting, a developer of Google Chrome, to a Reddit user.
Looking for the Chrome / Chromium issue tracker, we can see that scrolling tabs have been one of Chrome's most needed features in recent years, and that there are posts from September 2008, with the release of Chrome 1.0.
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