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Andrew M Pickard

Michael A LaJoie

Sergey Kisselev

Raymond Alexander Malkiewicz

Kelly Rose McArthur

Kristie E Smith

Martin D Hall

Evan Amarante Soares

Conroy Williamson

Adam Edward Barrus

Richard Fang

Marcus Philip Ghaly

Danielle Lauren Ellbogen

Samuel George Gates

Christopher Obeso

Systems and methods are provided for customizing tabs in a browser window by facilitating visual modifications to the tabs. An indication of a user interaction with a tab, such as a hover or selection input, is received. Based on receiving this indication of a user interaction, one or more options from which a user may select to modify or add content to the tab are provided for display. These options may include, for instance, colors, icons, text modifications, objects, etc. A user selection is received from the one or more options. Based on the user selection, the tab is visually altered.

Customizing tabs using visual modifications

Techniques for exposing tabs in system task switchers are described herein. In one or more implementations, input is received to initiate a switch between different applications executed in a multi-application computing environment. In response, a system task switcher is launched to facilitate selection of and switching between the different applications. representations of the different applications are exposed via a user interface for the system task switcher. In the system task switcher configured to include functionality accessible via the system task switcher to exposed representations of individual tabs open in applications having tabbed user interfaces. Responsive to a selection of a particular application via the system task switcher, a switch occurs to the particular application in the multi-application computing environment. If a particular tab is selected, the switch occurs to expose the application UI with the selected tab being presented as the active/top tab with focus in the application UI.

Tabs in system task switchers

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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