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Horizontal tabs
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 4 threads.
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Horizontal tab bar makes scrolling many tabs painful and hard to scanUnreviewed
20112026- Horizontal tabs shrink to icons or fixed sizes and waste vertical space2024-08-08
- Many open tabs make the horizontal tab bar frustrating to use for this workflow2023-07-18
- Horizontal tab titles become unreadable with many tabs, forcing users to guess by favicon2020-05-14
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Horizontal tabs shrink to icons or fixed sizes and waste vertical space2024-08-08
- Many open tabs make the horizontal tab bar frustrating to use for this workflow2023-07-18
- Horizontal tab titles become unreadable with many tabs, forcing users to guess by favicon2020-05-14
- Horizontal tab bar makes scrolling through many tabs painful and hard to scan2011-08-03