Comments on: Firefox 2 Tweaks: Tab browsing

By: ryan kulla

ryan kulla — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:24:48 +0000

yeah get the ‘Ctrl-Tab’ firefox extension

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:59:41 +0000

Does there exist an option for the Ctrl+Tab command to switch to the previous tab opened, much like Window’s Alt-Tab behaviour?

By: Mary Miller

Mary Miller — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:45:55 +0000

Even when the “new pages should be opened in a new tab” preference is selected, the new page opens in the existing window. GRRRR. Have tried lots of fixes including about:config settings.

Mac OSX 10.4.11
Firefox 2.0.0.12

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:32:52 +0000

Is there any way to get Firefox to show the last tab opened when I pressed Ctrl+Tab (similar to the Windows Alt+Tab)? If this can’t be modified in about:config, is there an addon that will do that?

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:22:39 +0000

Thanks for the terrific information — this has made my Firefox experience much better.

However, another thing that bugged me was that hovering over a tab highlights it, making me confuse it with the selected tab and sometimes closing the wrong tab (with a middle-click). I somehow managed to dig the answer out of classic.jar… at least for the default skin. Add the following lines to userChrome.css :

.tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected="true"]) > .tab-image-left {
background: url(”chrome://global/skin/icons/tab-left-bkgnd.png”) no-repeat !important;
background-color: -moz-dialog !important;
}

.tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected="true"]) > .tab-image-right {
background: url(”chrome://global/skin/icons/tab-right-bkgnd.png”) no-repeat !important;
background-color: -moz-dialog !important;
}

.tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected="true"]) > .tab-image-middle {
height: 24px;
background: url(”chrome://global/skin/icons/tab-middle-bkgnd.png”) repeat-x !important;
background-color: -moz-dialog !important;
}

Of course, you could just set a different background color for hovering if you prefer (and leave out the background elements). Sorry for stirring up an old topic, but even if there is an answer to this somewhere else here or on the support forum, I couldn’t find it. Now, if there’s just a way to stop the menus from highlighting when hovering…

By: patrickdrd

patrickdrd — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:20:20 +0000

Hi!

Any way to return back to the right next to the left tab after closing one?

Thanks in advance!

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:51:57 +0000

James, Just right click on any other preference and select New/integer and enter a name for the property (browser.tabs.closeButtons) and a value. Haven’t tried it in Mac though.

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:08:02 +0000

I’m using OS X - what happens if the “about.config” does not show a “browser.tabs.closeButtons” line to edit? (yes, it is really missing though every other setting line appears to be there. How can I add the line in so that I can set it to “1″ to replicate my use in Safari?

By: μblog: engineering from the trenches » How to restore Firefox 1.5 tab behavior in Firefox 2.0

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:54:19 +0000

[...] One of my few peeves with Firefox 2.0 has been the default tab setup where there is a minimum tab width defined, so eventually tabs go off the visible screen, and that each tab has an individual close button. If you have similar tastes, the way to tweak the tab settings is by entering “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. The first key to edit is browser.tabs.closeButtons and set it to 3 for Firefox 1.5 behavior. The second option is to set the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 0 pixels so the tabs adjust to fit the screen. More information can be found at the mozillalinks blog. [...]

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:59:36 +0000

The info provided in Neil’s comment would have been useful to have in the original posting. (Thanks, Neil! I couldn’t figure out why the instructions for hiding the “list all tabs” button worked fine on my Mac at home but not on my PC running WinXP at work.)

By: neil

neil — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:54:44 +0000

Can i just add a couple of things on hiding the “list all tabs” button..

First, the location of the userChrome-example.css file is in C:\Documents and Settings\neil\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXXXX.default\chrome for WinXP users (i got confused with the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\chrome folder).

Second, you forgot to mention you also need to re-name the userContent-example.css to userContent.css (which took me a while to figure out)

By: Uutisblogi - Mozilla.fi

Uutisblogi - Mozilla.fi — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:29:49 +0000

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By: K. Fischer

K. Fischer — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:07:43 +0000

browser.tabs.closeButtons, thank you!

By: PurpleStars.com- A Daily blog of A Techy Girl » Blog Archive » Firefox 2 Tweaks: Tab browsing

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:20:37 +0000

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By: muzzy.techblog » » Firefox 2.0

muzzy.techblog » » Firefox 2.0 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:23:10 +0000

[...] Postanowiłem zainstalować Firefoxa 2.0. Pierwsze co mi się rzuciło w oczy to zakładki - chyba największa zmiana w tym wydaniu. Wszystko inaczej. Trochę bardziej operowo. Całe szczęście to nie opera i da się bardzo dużo przekonfigurować - zwłaszcza gdy ktoś się przyzwyczaił do FX 1.XX. Roziwiązanie - zmiana ustawień. Wszystko zostało opisane w artykule na blogu mozillalinks. [...]

By: Allan Pendlebury

Allan Pendlebury — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:52:46 +0000

Is there a way to prevent a new tab from opening after clicking a link. With this feature tabs keep adding with each link. Firefox 1.5 didn’t do this.

Thanks, Allan

By: mozilla links - Mozilla news, tips and more. » More tab tweaks: The list all tabs button

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:01:51 +0000

[...] More tab tweaks: The list all tabs button By Percy Cabello | | | If you have decided that the tab close button in ever tab is not for you and have a single tab close button in the extreme right of the tab bar, your tab bar looks odd. This is because the list all tabs button is designed to "lean" on the right window border and not a smaller button like the close tabs. [...]

By: Armands

Armands — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:27 +0000

I have problem with tab scrolling. Extensions.tabmix.ebableScrollSwitch is true, but extension doesn’t work with FF 2.0 and scolling too.

By: ron

ron — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:04:02 +0000

colorful tabs and lose the close tab button

By: tahir

tahir — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:37:46 +0000

JR,

you can get into about:config by typing it in the address bar and pressing enter.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:18:16 +0000

And just where is it you go to get to about:config? There is no mention of it in the FF help contents, nor does anything come up when you search for it in FF help.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:55:03 +0000

When a new tab is opened can you default it to open your homepage?

By: Klyith

Klyith — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:58:58 +0000

Is there any way to put the “List all tabs” button to the left of the tab strip?

I prefer the FF 1.5 method of a single close button to the right of the tab strip. (A single constant location for things like that is better for the UI, and I can close non-focus tabs with middle click.) But the alltabs button at the same location is a bit annoying.

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:13:42 +0000

This is all fine and dandy, but I still preferred TabMixPlus and having close buttons on tabs pointed-to-for-x-ms.

By: misterhaan

misterhaan — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:36:14 +0000

i’m finding that it’s browser.tabs.closeButtons, not browser.tabs.closeButton