Membranophonist’s Ramblings

Three tab-related additions to Safari would be much appreciated by me:

• Tab bar grouping:

  The Galeon browser for GNOME groups tabs by opening them immediately to the right of the tab they are opened from. This makes working with many tabs in one window a lot easier, as they are automatically organized by their link relationship.

• Opening external links in new tabs:

  Currently, regardless of whether or not tabbed browsing is used, links clicked in other applications are opened in their own window. Window clutter quickly becomes a problem when using an RSS reader to view links (one reason I detest RSS feeds without full posts).

• hing tabs:

  I frequently encounter pages which contain many other links I want to explore - in a different window. This currently requires manually opening a new window and drag and dropping the address from the tab to the new window, after which the original tab can be closed. Reducing this to a single contextual menu selection would be nice. I remember this function being fairly useful in KDE’s Konqueror. The default menu item would be “Move Tab To New Window” with “Copy Tab To New Window” being available by using the Option modifier, assuming it is technically possible for contextual menus to have modifiable behavior like that available to menu bar items.