It’s a Tabbed World
Posted on Sunday, April 30th, 2006 at 9:36 pm under Mac Geekery.
I love my tabbed Safari, Firefox, and Camino. Ever since Tiger came out I’ve been enjoying multiple sites in one window and it’s been spreading to other apps like my favorite text editor. SkEdit recently got the tab treatment amongst other things. Even iChat is tabbed now, although through a plugin. It’s a tabbed world and I am loving it. I am way more efficient and live with less clutter, a selected pet-peeve of mine. Now the last frontier would be the Finder. I really hope Apple develops this since I don’t know if this is something that is possible through a third party app.
Link: Tabbed finder mock up by Andy Budd
Link: Chax - iChat plugin
Apr 30th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
I haven’t tried it, but this company has a finder replacement with tabbed windows…
Apr 30th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Wow, thanks for the heads up!
This is great Melvin!
May 1st, 2006 at 4:09 am
Tabs rock! SkEdit has a little work to do as tabs only work if you are in site mode. Open five documents from the desktop and you get no tabs. A tabbed finder would be awesome too!!
May 1st, 2006 at 7:17 am
i wish iTunes had tabs!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Yeah, a tabbed finder isn’t gonna happen. The finder is Carbon based, and doesn’t use any standard UI elements so its impossible to write a plugin to accomplish this. Apple is the only person who can accomplish this….
May 15th, 2006 at 4:13 am
Also:
Macintosh Explorer Aqua - tabbed file browser & file management
http://www.ragesw.com/products/explorer.html
But a real Finder tab browsing ‘d be nice.