What does your feature entail? What is it for?
How will it affect existing workflows or user experience?
Right now, there are a ton of tab operations, and they're split between the File, View, History, Bookmarks, and Window menus. This is sort of out-of-control, belies an unguided evolutionary expansion of the tab concept in Safari from non-existence to utterly essential and pervasive, and needs to be updated to consider tabs as first class citizens of the menu bar. Chrome has already adopted this.
I think that, like Chrome, there should be a dedicated menu for all or most of these tab-related menu items. And further, I would love to see a list of open tabs in that bar (again like Chrome). This would entail,
- Move all tab-related items from the File and View menus into this new Tab menu
- This could entail a "break-in" period where the items exist in both the original place and the tab menu, or where there is a preference to set between "consolidated tab menu" and "legacy tab menu items"
- Add a list of all open tabs for the current window to this menu
- The "Current Tabs" item could lead to a sub-menu of open tabs
What are the exact ways that you see a user using your proposed feature? Please go into as much detail as possible, and provide examples of how other browsers/apps implement this feature, if applicable. If your feature suggestion adds on to an existing feature, how would it work into it to extend its usefulness?
Very simple: instead of hunting and pecking for a tab operation (or searching the "Help" menu, which incidentally cannot display all the tab operations due to their sheer volume), the user selects the tab menu and selects an option. Chrome does this nicely.
