Thread: Fennec Alpha 2
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ragnar is offline ragnar
2008-12-25 , 19:54
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#14
Originally Posted by namtastic View Post
I like the jump they made between a1 and a2 but I still think it's too gimmicky, and its best gimmicks -- zooming, swiping, etc -- still have issues. It'll be great to have for those pages that absolutely need it, but it'll be a long while until this replaces MicroB for me.
Yeah, I also tried the latest alpha. It wasn't as slow as I had anticipated, but then again, my expectations weren't that high. Gimmicky is also a word I would use. I don't really buy that method of tabbed browsing to be really quick or handy to use.

Dragging the entire page to the side, especially after zooming in, is not really a fun experience. Plus your position gets lost... Suppose you're zoomed in somewhere to the right side of a page, and would want to switch to another tab: goodbye to your page position. Or vice versa to the controls on the right hand side.

Does somebody wildly disagree with me? Am I missing the brilliance of the UI concept?