[RTW] My biggest concern

[John Luther]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Timothy B. Terriberry
<tterriberry at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> In my own situation, I have a list of common viewed websites at the top
>> of my browser and a simple accidental click will go to those new pages.
>
> If that's your biggest concern, then I have good news for you. Firefox 4 has
> a feature called App Tabs designed to address these use cases (I believe
> Chrome has something similar, but I don't use it so I don't actually know).

You are correct, they're called Pinned Tabs in Chrome.

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/tab-ui

> More information here:
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-are-app-tabs, but the relevant
> sentence is: "Links to new websites open in a new tab so that your App Tab
> doesn't change." I think this does exactly what you want.
>
> In any case, this is fundamentally an issue for the user-agent, and not, I
> think, one that has much impact on the actual standards.
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