Firefox Tab Closure
June 28, 2007 – 8:39 amI’ve been ragging on Safari for a while, but there are things that it does better.
Why in the world is Firefox’s “close” button for a tab on the right side?
I open up my 20 (or so) comic sites, and close them one at a time to read them all. About halfway through, I have to look up and move my mouse over because the tabs have changed size. From then on, after closing each tab I have to look and make sure that I’m on the button.
Solution: Move close button to the left side, or use Safari.
6 Responses to “Firefox Tab Closure”
Ohhhh . . . that drives me nuts too. Silly tabs.
By Tabitha on Jun 28, 2007
man! an ingenious solution!
By Jackson on Jun 28, 2007
Hey Dwight! (I’ve been lurking on your blog for the last few entries. :-) )
I had to chime in on this one. That’s what keyboard shortcuts are for! In Safari or Firefox, just press crtl-w to close the current tab. That way, it don’t mattah where yo mouse pointer be. :-)
By Jeff Terrell on Jun 28, 2007
ahh, that’s good…
But good software design says: “make every way easy”
or whatever :D
By dwight on Jun 28, 2007
I used to use the shortcut Jeff mentioned, but ‘W’ is so close to ‘Q’ on the keyboard and I usually end up closing all windows instead of one tab.
IE7 actually made its way to the top of my preferred browsers list. Too bad it’s not on my Mac! :-O
By Neener on Jul 5, 2007
you can still find 5.2.3 out there :P
I didn\’t get to try out IE7 back when I was using my Concordia pc laptop full time… That was when I made my transition to Firefox, and, actually, Gmail as a mail reader instead of just a service…
By dwight on Jul 6, 2007