Upcoming Build of Firefox 4 Getting Tab Candy
Mmm... Candy.
If you're an internet power user and you have lots of tabs open in your Firefox, you'll know how arduous it can be to continuously scroll through them to find what you want.
To help manage tabs, developers at Mozilla have developed Tab Candy, a very slick and easy way to sort and switch tabs. The first version was in the special build of Minefield, but the idea has been so well received that it's getting integrated into an upcoming version of Firefox 4 beta.
Mike Beltzner tweeted: "Just approved Tab Candy to land on mozilla-central later today. Great work by the team to get it there. More to do, but this is a big hurdle"
Check out what Tab Candy is all about in the video below:
Firefox Tab Candy
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Can be quite useful when you open a page for viewing later etc. and power users like myself with 20+ tabs open will definitely benefit.
Tab candy... I think I remember someone trying to sell me something call that once..
Candy... I like
cant it do it for me automagicaly. Think about it. I have 5 tabs open with cameras in it. Cant they group them for me. I dont want to take time to sort may tabs. Most of the time I am only switching from one to two active tabs at a time. (out of the 50 that are open)
There are magical tabs on your START BAR that group
Browser tabs are annoying, and I have them completely disabled
I still think that most browsers shouldn't have the almost exact same UI...
I know that Fx and Opera did the theme at the same time, but I like variety.
Hey hey, I thought we're getting the first candy!
personally i don't like the word "Candy". Sounds like something to entice you, without giving anything of substantial value. If all it does is to organize all the open tabs, why not just call it a Tab Organizer?
Well, personally, I think this is both superfluous but also awesome. It adds a layer of elegance to something I already do. Instead of managing it in the "Tab candy window", I have it managed in individual instances of firefox along my browser. With the help of Win7, I can just drag and drop based on priority, and with FF's ability to drag out a tab and have it pop open in a window, I just manage my tabgroups as such. However, this would allow for a really elegant way to manage all of that, and, IMO sort of one-up's Google's thought of "The browser as a desktop." Thinks about it...Aren't most of us power-users ALREADY doing tab-candy like me, in the OS? Now, FF has just taken that OS-level power and embedded it into their browser. Just leave FF open, and you can do everything that your start bar and windows space WAS doing originally. Very cool, but, as I said, also somewhat superfluous. It's essentially a very elegant solution for people who don't understand the power of their OS.
Kinda of stupid in a way. Having 20+ tabs? How many people actually do this? Going that far, you may end up with hundreds... which is kind of pointless, why bother having bookmarks. When you're done with tabs, close them out.
and with IE8, its nothing but a horrible mess.
I'll admit that my current OPERA browser has 10 tabs. when I'm done in about 5 mins, it'll be down to 5 and I shut down. Opera has a SPEED DIAL - visual bookmark for your top 9~24 sites of your choice as well as keeping tabs in memory without bugging you about it.
Tab Candy... looks useless for more people, but a MUST HAVE for those with 25+ tabs. But with typical users... 2~4 tabs is overwhelming...
There are magical tabs on your START BAR that groupBrowser tabs are annoying, and I have them completely disabled
To each his own, but multiple instances of firefox use much more RAM than a single with multiple tabs, and depending on the OS all the browsers are not necessarily grouped together on the TASK BAR, or it may require more clicks to change between tabs. Granted you get the benefit of Alt-Tab, but with Windows 7 separate tabs can be alt-tabbed to IIRC, if the program supports the new API
I never have more than about 10 tabs open at a time, averaging about 8 maybe going up to 15. what do people need to have constantly open that they have 25+ tabs?
Absolutely FANTASTIC. In a normal session I have about 10 tabs open but regularly go to 20-30 tabs when googling a new topic. For me, this is an ideal solution and I love it.
Oooh that looks quite nice, don't think i would ever have that many tabs open and i dont use firefox unless on my phone but i'm sure some people will love the way that manages them
To each his own, but multiple instances of firefox use much more RAM than a single with multiple tabs, and depending on the OS all the browsers are not necessarily grouped together on the TASK BAR, or it may require more clicks to change between tabs. Granted you get the benefit of Alt-Tab, but with Windows 7 separate tabs can be alt-tabbed to IIRC, if the program supports the new API
I'm really worried about my two or three browser windows using up my 4 gigs of ram...
from last browser test done by Tom's, Firefox has still trouble letting go of memory resource after closing excess tabs...
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 80-10.html
Tab Candy IS interesting feature but need to work on memory release like Google Chrome to work efficiently...
P.S. there's already a "Tab Candy"...it's called Firefox Girl...
Firefox is already a memory hog. Hopefully they will figure out a way to keep memory usage low when I have a bazillion tabs open at once.
Looks awsome.
Tabs are just like having multiple windows open.
Tab Candy is just a desktop for tabs.
Now my friends can see which porn site I'm browsing. Ingenious. /sarcasm
Tab Candy looks like a work around for people who are too lazy to open up another Firefox window, or does Firefox not allow multiple windows/instances open at a time? I mean, if I was going to go through the effort of using Tab Candy, why not just open up a second instance of the browser?
Looks kinda neat, but who wants ads in their tabs?
So, the firefox girl's name is 'Candy'? Mmmm...Candy.
I just found out Firefox girl isn't actually firefox girl. Image is paste on the shirt. :[
personally i don't like the word "Candy". Sounds like something to entice you, without giving anything of substantial value. If all it does is to organize all the open tabs, why not just call it a Tab Organizer?
entice? what are you a priest?
I'd imagine that people with 20+ tabs would change the minimum tab width to 0. I can easily fit more than 30 tabs (currently 36) on my screen without scrolling. Admittedly a 24" monitor is better for that than a netbook screen.
I can see that tab candy is more than a feature to save space with tabs, it's an information organizational tool. I'm really impressed at the possibilities it brings. Kudos to the FF team for thinking outside the box. Now on to look up that Firefox sync they mentioned in the video...
hmmm, i still think they should just implement the tabs in a vertical sense at the side of the browser (like tree style tabs) as i can get 38 tabs before i get a scrollbar
though when the grid came up, i had a preview of one of the firefox's from about 9 months ago that had that and then they took it out of the previews that came after
@hellwig, as zerapio commented, it's an information organizational tool. People use there browsers in different ways. Some might wonder why you'd need so many tabs open, but trust me, once you have the option to do so efficiently your browsing experience can be greatly improved if you take advantage of it. I use tree style tabs to tackle tab organization (as mindless728 noted), and will continue to do so because it's faster. It doesn't look as nice, and the effect of spatial memory is slightly weakened, and most importantly to people using low res screens, it always uses significant screen space, but it's faster and suits my current needs perfectly. It seems I alway comment on tree-style tab related articles. I guess I just like it that much. It is the number one reason I won't be using Chrome anytime soon.
awesome, finally we have "Bump Top" for browsing
Some might wonder why you'd need so many tabs open, but trust me, once you have the option to do so efficiently your browsing experience can be greatly improved if you take advantage of it.
Nope, tried it, don't like it at all actually
all i can say I have been waiting for this day since tabs came out
i would use other ways and use sessions to load the diff tabs LOL but that doesnt work not even close as good as this does! cant wait! I have so many todo tabs its not even funny... you know how good this is for projects or even when selling/buying or if your job hunting? its huge, i dont know what google has planned but if firefox keeps this up ill be sticking with them for very long time