Usability of tabbed browsing in Firefox
An evaluation of Firefox tabbed browsing ...
"The usability studies were done at Google, using a special build of Firefox 1.5b1 that was configured to open targeted links in new tabs instead of in new Windows.
The testing revealed some things that caused problems for many users:
Back button: When a new tab is created, it gets a blank session history, so you can’t use the back button to get back to the page that launched the tab.
Closing tabs: Many did not see the close button, and instead used the contextual menu to close tabs. Some tried closing the entire browser window instead of just the tab.
Stacking order of tabs: When closing a tab that was opened by a targeted link from another tab, the adjacent tab is made active instead of the tab containing the opening link." continued ... (Via 456 Berea Street)
"The usability studies were done at Google, using a special build of Firefox 1.5b1 that was configured to open targeted links in new tabs instead of in new Windows.
The testing revealed some things that caused problems for many users:
Back button: When a new tab is created, it gets a blank session history, so you can’t use the back button to get back to the page that launched the tab.
Closing tabs: Many did not see the close button, and instead used the contextual menu to close tabs. Some tried closing the entire browser window instead of just the tab.
Stacking order of tabs: When closing a tab that was opened by a targeted link from another tab, the adjacent tab is made active instead of the tab containing the opening link." continued ... (Via 456 Berea Street)
Firefox 1.5b1.
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