Firefox/Chrome Windows 7

As most of you know probably, when you have 2 or more tabs open in IE, and you hover over it on the taskbar, it will show each tab and you can preview it there or exit it. This doesn't work with Firefox or Chrome. Does anyone know how or if somehow this will get added/enabled in the future somehow? Some tweak I bet can accomplish this.

 

There's no tweak or addon required. FF and Chrome simply have to program the function (very well documented) into the browser.

 

So it's on FF and Chrome's side of things to get this accomplished? I'm guessing they will probably incorporate this in the near future as more and more people are testing the RC and eventually using it as their main OS.

 

It's completely up to Chrome/Firefox's programmers to implent the feature.

BTW... have you tried IE8? On windows 7 on my netbook, currently it's miles ahead of both chrome and firefox in terms of stability and speed and special features like tab preview from taskbar.

 

I have and that is the only thing I like about it;tab preview from the taskbar. IE8 is very streamlined with Windows 7 as it should be. However, the speed is average and not faster than FF or Chrome and for some reason I can't stand the way IE looks. It's hideous, imo. =/

 

LOL.. some people like ie gui and some don't. Use whatever you like the best. If you want to have "tab preview" for firefox, there's a silly workaround.

Use new windows instead of tabs. Windows can be previewed as thumbnails and you can use windows+tab shortcut to 3d flip throuugh them.

 

Yeah, this was something I noticed on Win7 as well.

Hopefully Google and Mozilla implement the feature. It's an extremely nice feature to have.

@jack: I've had a similar experience with IE8 in Win7. It seems much stabler and faster than the alternatives (FF, Chrome in particular).

 

If you use readyboost and eboostr, the speed difference will be more apparent.

E.g IE opens instantly and so are all the tabs. FF and chrome needs 1 second load.

 

Yeah, I know new windows works, but I'm to used to tabs and find myself ctrl+tab rather than alt+tab or win+tab. Plus new windows=more instances of FF or Chrome which eats up ram fast.

 

Mozilla is bringing it with FF 3.6 (I think) and Chrome will probably have it soon too.

 

That's good news. Hopefully they'll be ready to go by the time Win7 is official.

 

Still loving Chrome the most in 7 and Vista. It uses by far the least screen real estate of any of the browsers and has (for me) the fastest speed. It took me a while to get used to the tabs on top but I find it hard to even use Firefox now.

 

If you hide all of the toolbar and menubars from IE8 and Firefox, it'll look just as clean as Chrome.

 

i couldnt get chrome to work in W7 64-bit. Dunno why but it basically wouldn't recognize the internet, and wouldnt bring up any pages. Not sure why

 

For Firefox users, i found WinFox. Adds jumplists to FF!

https://brentf.com/blog/software/winfox-ndash-firefox-and-windows-7/

 

opera runs faster than chrome, and doesn't collect your info. unless you 'unchromed' it.

 

Ok thank you for that random post?

 

Chrome 2.0 is simply one of the best browsers I've ever used.

I hope they get it right for Windows 7.