Firefox questions

[pecunium]

I just upgraded to 2.0 something.

Looking at it, I am not happy (the last time I tried this it had horrible side effects, and I went back to 1.5.8).

Is there any way to get rid of the individual tab closing buttons. I tried that as an extention, way back when. I didn't like it then. I don't like it now. It means I have to move the mouse if I want to close tabs serially (which is part of how I do my daily reading. I look at a blog, and if there's nothing new, I close it.) My daily reads are in order, so that those who are infrequent posters are together, it makes things much easier. I have some joint problems, and the less fine motor movement of the mouse, the better.

Second, is there any way to avoid this scrolling of the tab bar? I understand that this prevents the titles of the tabs from being shrunk, but I don't want to have to search for things when I want to shift from one to the other. I can manage my tabs myself, thank you very much.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It's default, but it's annoying. I often have a lot of tabs open. I can look and see them.

Only now I can't. I have to mouse over, and see if it's there.

If I'm doing a post which links to lots of places, I either have to drag them around, or keep going back to the menu to find the stuff I want to link to/quote from.

And having to use a, different, set of repetitive motions to close thing (and one which has the potential to teach me a habit which I might default to (ctrl t creates new tabs, but on the bookmarks toolbar it deletes the present bookmark... not the best case of cognate behavior), annoys, me.

I suppose part of it is my resenting programmers deciding what it is I want, and opting me into their ideas, when it's something I ought to have some say in.

TK

[geekchick]

I often have a lot of tabs open. I can look and see them.

Only now I can't. I have to mouse over, and see if it's there

You might look at the Tabmix Plus extension if you routinely keep a lot of tabs open; you can set a preference to have your open tabs stacked in rows rather than scrollign or shrinking down to unusability. I don't generally have more than 8 or so at a time open, but currently got 13 tabs open and they're displayed on two rows.

[geekchick]

Oh yeah, and it also gives you the choice of displaying the "close tab" button or not. I think I'm going to switch over to this from Tabbrowser Preferences.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, unless tabs are shrunk down to a few characters of titles, putting them in stacked rows can get really cumbersome and use up a lot of screen space. (At least, for me. When I'm researching something it's not uncommon for me to have 50 tabs open.)

[clownburner.livejournal.com]

You might also want to look at the FireFox Showcase extension, which will allow 'thumbmails' of all your open tabs.

[clownburner.livejournal.com]

Er, "thumbnails." You know what I meant. :-)