Thoughts on Safari 4's New Tab Bar
Safari’s new tab layout, placing the tabs directly in the window title bar, is a radical change.
Chrome and Safari 4's top-of-the-window tab placement irritated me at first, but I think that was mostly reaction to the required muscle memory changes, not the on the merits at all. Conceptually they're much cleaner up top, though Gruber has many well-thought out nits to pick with the implementation.
The biggest problem remaining is Safari still doesn't show me favicons in tabs. IE7 can do this for crying out loud, why not Safari?
(For those of you on the wild side, there is a browser plugin that purports to add favicons to Safari tabs. I don't do plugins as a general rule and haven't tried this one out, but if you're interested you can find Glims here: http://www.machangout.com/)
