Small sample size (21) and only one who preferred windows over tabs. Still, may be worth studying more.
I prefer browser tabs after resisting them for about a year. And I still prefer separate terminal windows. So maybe I'm not the best judge.
I prefer browser tabs after resisting them for about a year. And I still prefer separate terminal windows. So maybe I'm not the best judge.
Tile Tabs [0] was an extension that used to enable this kind of workflow for Firefox, but with the WebExtensions transition I thought it'd be no longer available, but it looks like I was wrong. There's a Tile Tabs WE extension [1] now, that attempts to replicate the same experience using windows, but it's not quite the same in terms of usability and space efficiency, and makes it mostly pointless if you have a decent tiled window manager that can accomplish the same layouts (which is what I have generally defaulted to ever since losing Tile Tabs).
This and vertical tabs are the kinds of features that I wish were built into the core of browsers because it needs a lot of UX attention to really shine. While I'm glad vertical tabs seems to be getting first-class treatment from WebExtensions, it's a shame that panes-based workflows appears to be getting shafted.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7hs9tn/teaser_scre...
The Firefox Test Pilot teams have been coming up with some consistently awesome features, and generally with great UX.
I can't wait to try out their take on panes!
So if there would be a larger study, we should think first about which actions we would take depending on the result as we got already some sound assumptions.