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Fun with Safari’s Top Sites feature and Comcast Internet pre-activation
This is Safari 4’s Top Sites view after moving into our new place today, but before Comcast arrived to activate our service. It couldn’t check any of my 20 Top Sites for new content, so it displayed the only thing that was returned for each attempt: Comcast’s pre-activation new customer landing page.
My favorite thing is that one site, the login page for Quicken Online, held its ground.
A close runner up is that 5 Comcast landing pages had new content, while the other 14 didn’t.
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The “Tabs in the Title Bar” browser trend creates a unique new problem for website usability.
This new style of tabs is used in Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari 4 browsers, and it all but obliterates website names when just a few tabs are open. I have six tabs in this screenshot, and I can barely read more than two words of each site’s title even in the active tab (previously, and in most other browsers, the entire title bar is used to display the name of a site). Granted, my window is set to an arguably slim 900 pixels wide to leave room for concurrently using other apps, but things don’t get much better if I go full screen. Imagine how much worse this is with more tabs, and don’t forget that I am running Glims, a plug-in that, among other features, brings favicons to Safari’s tabs.
From a screen real estate perspective, I love the new title bar tabs because they leave more room for displaying a page’s content. But from a usability perspective, these tabs make it more difficult to quickly figure out the full title of a website, article, or blog post.
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