TechnoLust's Journal: Firefox 2.0 and Toaster Eggrolls

I downloaded FF2 today (since it's officially released.) I like it so far, except some of the addons I use aren't updated for FF2 yet. It has built in spell checking, so that's cool. If I find anything remarkable, I'll be sure to... erm... remark.

And microwave eggrolls are so much better if you put them in the microwave (or leave them out) until the center is room temp, then you put them in a wide-mouthed toaster. Yep, I invented toaster eggrolls.

FF2 Here 2...What I don't like

[jawtheshark]

Is the fact that the close button on the tabs is, well on the tab. I like to open a lot of tabs and then after reviewing close them at once. Now I need to move my mouse and with the fixed position close button I didn't have this problem.

It surely is only me....

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[Com2Kid]

about:config is your friend. You can change it back. I cannot remember how.

Originally all the FF people were like "CLOSE BUTTONS ON TABS SUX0RS!!!" but MS (or someone) did a usability study and it showed that only geeks who understood things thought that close buttons on tabs sux0red and that everybody else was asking why the hell each tab didn't have a close button.

I just use the middle mouse button anyway, so it makes no difference to me.

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[jawtheshark]

Guess I'm a geek... I use middle button all the time, but this is a company laptop with a Redmond OS and it only has two buttons.

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[Eye of the Frog]

If you have a touchpad, you might be able to map one of the corners to the middle button when you tap it. On my touchpad, upper-left tap is the middle mouse button, upper-right is the right mouse button, lower left is back in my browsing history, and lower right is forward in my browsing history.

But for tab closing, I just use ctrl-w.

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[TechnoLust]

I use MouseGestures Right click and pull down closes a tab for me. I'm so used to it, that I try it Word, Eclipse, DreamWeaver, Excel, IE, GroupWise, and just about every other app I have. :-)

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[RevMike]

Is the fact that the close button on the tabs is, well on the tab. I like to open a lot of tabs and then after reviewing close them at once. Now I need to move my mouse and with the fixed position close button I didn't have this problem.

I'm mixed on it. I like moving to a fixed place, but I've made the mistake of looking up at the tab bar and pressing the 'X' expecting it to close the tab I'm looking at rather than the tab I've actually raised. :) This way kind of eliminates the whole close-wrong-tab th

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[Zeriel]

It's not just you. I need to find this mythical about:config switch.

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[Timex]

Is the fact that the close button on the tabs is, well on the tab. I like to open a lot of tabs and then after reviewing close them at once.

Okay...

I got curious and did a little poking. Here's what I found.

The "mythical" about:config setting is 'browser.tabs.closeButtons'.

Values seem to have the following effects:

0: Puts "X" on active tab only
1 (Default): Puts "X" on all tabs
2: No "X" on any tabs
3: Puts "X" on the right, where it was with FF1.x

After that, '4' seems to have the same effect as '2', and I did

ff2 is much better than 1

[subgeek]

but i still don't quite like it as much as opera. the gestures extension finally work as well as opera's, though. what's up with having to restart firefox after applying a new theme, though?