Browser-laptop: some users may not want tab previews

Created on 30 Jan 2016 · 5Comments · Source: brave/browser-laptop

brennan novak writes via twitter:

perhaps the most noticeable (unpleasant) thing is while hovering over non-current tabs, it shows me the view of that page buy gray out- feels glitchy / and startling

this bothers me too; might be fixed by #142. if we get more feedback like this, might be good to have an option to disable tab preview.

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For those reading this, you can turn off tab previews in Preferences, under tabs :smile:

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bsclifton on 6 Nov 2016

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I would say take a look how Vivaldi is handling this. That is personally the style i would love.

Also, it would be interesting to actually have smaller tab previews in the tabs itself, also in the way like Vivaldi does handle that. You have the tab with the favicon and the site name and beyond a small tab picture/screenshot, also you are able to make tabs with drawing them larger - aka make the tab preview under the tab title and the favicon larger.

Perhaps you can find some idea like that also useful for Brave?

ghost on 30 Jan 2016

Current tab preview breaks the "close background tab without the person looking over my shoulder seeing its contents" privacy use case. A solution to that part of the issue could be to not preview if the mouse is over the close button, only previewing if the mouse is over the title in the tab.