Comments on: Firefox 3.6 tips and tweak

By: VoltisArt

VoltisArt — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:59:31 +0000

Took me three links to get really annoyed at the new tab behavior. (Yes, it’s been a while since I upgraded, for this kind of reason. I’m stubborn.) Thank you. Passing the info to friends.

By: Wasd

Wasd — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:54:32 +0000

So true. It’s wouldn’t be so bad if reverting to the pre-update behaviors was easily done, but instead we have to take time out to search google for a way to fix it. Developers should add options instead of assuming that every one will want their changes. Overall i still like firefox over the other browsers and I’ll stick with them.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:16:40 +0000

Thanks for tip #1! No doubt it’s a small thing where the tab opens, but I became more and more annoyed with it.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:30:03 +0000

NEVER ever EVER change default options under the user’s feet.

*ESPECIALLY* if you have automatic updates turned on by default.

Nothing makes me more MAD than some egghead developer who thinks doing things “the right way” is more important than not stabbing the user in the back with changes to the default behavior. We don’t care that your design team’s aesthetic sensibility is offended because the parent-child relationship of browser taps isn’t reflected in their order.

99.99% of users dont’ care and should not need to.

Is the genius behind this the same idiot that decided to ninja embed the “close tab” button in every tab when it was perfectly fine at the end of the tab bar? (the only other time this bs happened)

If it is, AXE him and put someone else instead who understands usability.

By: Null

Null — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:23:37 +0000

Thanks for #1

I hate looking for where my new tab opened… ugh its such an anti-pattern

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:37:43 +0000

Thank you so much for #1. I was actually considering downgrading to 3.5 and disable updates for the sole purpose of not having tabs open right next to current tab.
Kudos!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:57:18 +0000

+1 to tip #1… opening new tabs directly to the right of the ‘parent’ tab was a horrible idea. pro tip: just because Microsoft does something doesn’t mean it is a Good Thing.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:34:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip on #1. I recently upgraded to 3.6 and was getting really hacked off with the new behaviour of tabs opening to the right of their ‘mother’.
Cheers!

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:20:50 +0000

Many of this behaviour was implemented on Ctrl-Tab addon:

http://en.design-noir.de/mozilla/ctrl-tab/

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:14:52 +0000

Just wondering, do you also know a way to get automatically back to the previous selected tab when closing another tab (or just to the tab to the left)? For instance, when insertRelatedAfterCurrent is set, middle-clicking on a link opens a new tab directly to the right of the current tab. After viewing this tab, I close it, but then I am dropped at the tab to the right of the previously open tab, not at its ‘parent’ one to the left.

By: Alfa

Alfa — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:49:18 +0000

Thanks, thnks for the tip #1. I desided to install Google Gambie browser, because of this RARE behavoiur of Firefox, wich you can not disable in Options.

By: Zat

Zat — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:08:15 +0000

Thank you so much for tip #1. This helped a ton.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:03:38 +0000

Thanks I do like to have the tabs open at the end. Awesome

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By: RichH

RichH — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:34:43 +0000

Thanks for the tip on the tabs behaviour — this was driving me nuts! I do a lot of research and find the IE mode of the tabs opening adjacent to be extremely frustrating for keeping track of flow of how I got from point A to B as they get all out of order. This should be a checkbox option in the Tools-Options-Tabs area instead of needing to use the “about” method.

Thanks.

By: Kamahl

Kamahl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:31:32 +0000

It was in betas, but got disabled for some reason…

By: OliWan

OliWan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:53:40 +0000

Thanks for all tips !

By: vinitneo

vinitneo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:07:05 +0000

Nice tips. Thank you very much. The features like Tab preview are working very well then why haven’t Mozilla enabled it by default?

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:49:34 +0000

Percy, thanks for the great tips. Adding them to my blog and Wiki.

By: Dwight Stegall

Dwight Stegall — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:34:55 +0000

Read it again. I does say that.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:17:30 +0000

Nice tips! But after I restart the Firefox,the setting is fine,but the function doesn’t work,so I need to go to the “about:config” page to switch again,and the function will back.
Are there any method to keep these settings even I close the Firefox?

By: Kamahl

Kamahl — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:34:28 +0000

Personally, I’ve been using the ‘new’ method since 2.0 (Tab mix plus, and then above preference).

I find the scrolling to the end of my tab bar and back for one tab (On average that’s past about 90 tabs each way) is way too much effort, even with Chrome’s tab shrinking.

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:55:43 +0000

Thanks for #1. That was kind of annoying.

By: Akram Shaikh

Akram Shaikh — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:45:45 +0000

Nice, thank you.

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:31:45 +0000

Definitely! Thanks very much for the heads up. Updated.