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

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

I agree that the scrolling is a pain, but I haven't searched for a way to turn it off.

As for closing tabs, I just hit ctrl-w rather than using the mouse.

[chris-goodwin.livejournal.com]

In the address bar, type about:config and then enter. It'll bring up a search window; in the search space type browser.tabs.closebuttons

Here (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons) is the page that describes the tab close button settings. To edit it, double-click on the item and enter the new value in, then click Ok.

Here (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.tabMinWidth) is one for the tab width.

[chris-goodwin.livejournal.com]

Whoops. It's 'filter' not 'search'.

The settings likely won't take effect until you restart Firefox.

[geekchick]

I just use ctl-w to close the current tab instead of bothering with the mouse.

Lifehacker's post on disabling or modifying tab scrolling in Firefox 2.

I don't want to have to search for things when I want to shift from one to the other

I've had Tabbrowser Preferences installed forever and so don't remember if this is default browser behavior or not, but on the far right side of my tab bar there's a "List all tabs" button that will give you a drop-down menu listing of all open tabs.

[elf]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

I hate the individual tabs' close buttons; I keep accidentally closing tabs when I'm trying to go to them.

[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. :-)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I now like FF2.0 and will now be installing it on all of my desktops. So far I'd had to upgrade one machine from 1.5 and was hating it, just because of the multi-tab closure.

Have a barnstar, or local equivalent 8-)