A quick take on tab navigation

Switching between tabs has never been an easy task. Preview tabs on hover is a pretty good solution to this, however the preview is often small and the animation is rather slack, even sluggish. And I don't want to check the preview of every single 100+ tabs I'm opening. So alternatives and modifications are born and each has provided interesting approaches to this whole tab navigation muddle.

Let's go through some of them.

1/ Legacy Edge has a feature that shows all previews of the tabs, that's cool since you don't have to hover your mouse and wait.

2/ In Opera 24 for desktop: instead of a small preview overlay, hover on any tabs will change the content of the current tab into that tab's. User then click on that tab to start interact with its content if they like.

3/ My own approach: recently clicked tabs are expanded to show the title. This is especially useful when you open a ton of tabs but mostly switch between few of those.