A brief talk on Google Chrome Google browser user experience problem

We know that Google browser Chrome has been launched for some time, but the market reflects very flat, and everyone on this comment is very different, then Google browser in the end where did not do it right? is the market or the product itself a problem? Below we from the user experience perspective to analyze the Google browser Chrome in the user experience of some of the defects, Ken can be some of the reasons why you do not like him

Once a designer has experienced Google Chrome, it points out that if there are too many open pages, the tab bar will look like the horror shown in the following image:

Another typical design that differs from this is Firefox. In Firefox, the label has a minimum width. When the number of tabs is too large to accommodate all the tabs, the Button Control tab will be displayed in the tab bar and left side, and a drop-down list is provided to display all the labels that are not displayed.

Did the designers from Google not take into account the possible worst-case scenario?

In the actual process of using chrome, the scenario shown above is actually very difficult to show. On the one hand, users don't usually open that many tags (the user should also know how to make a habit--remember to close pages that are no longer in use), and the icon at the beginning of the tag helps to distinguish between different labels. Within a certain tolerance range (which is certainly not as exaggerated as pictured above), users will not feel the hassle of switching labels. Firefox defines the bounds of this tolerance for the user, but is this a definition that meets the needs of all people? If the Firefox user's tag is so much that the browser is not fully displayed, the user will need to click on a previous label to find it, perhaps users would prefer the browser to compress the width of each label, after all, this does not need too much sacrifice.

More importantly, the flexibility of the chrome tag operation naturally dissolves this embarrassing appearance. In chrome, the tags are designed so lightweight that users can easily drag and drop a new window (which can also be easily restored). In the same window, the label can be organized with the same drag-and-drop operation. If the label is too many, use simple operation to form a multiple window browsing mode, avoid the situation that cannot display the label normally. If a user is willing to cultivate a habit, it is possible to create a new window on a particular action that is easy to form more tags, such as browsing the news, and then close the Open tab by closing the window when the operation is finished. Before the user discovers that the label is too short to be recognizable, there are enough and flexible ways to avoid it.

Then look at the design of Firefox, users switch between different tags need to do more operation, the actual operation is not convenient.

Chrome has made a natural remedy for the potential embarrassment caused by tolerant users with great flexibility, which is better than the design considerations that have minimal gain.