Re: Tab and focus order improvements -- any progress?

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:58 PM, BZT <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is my first post to the Multizilla list. My Multizilla is version
> 1.8.3.4e in SeaMonkey 1.1.1.5 (Windows). I am also a longtime Firefox user.
>
> I'd like to know if there has been any progress in enabling the other two
> options in Tab Bar Behavior>Tab and Focus Order. It seems to me that the
> default -- or maybe the 'custom default' (now there's an oxymoron!) focus
> behavior of FF and SeaMonkey (sans MZ) is paradoxically set aside when one
> installs this add-on. While I concede that there are other popular functions
> of MZ that from the pov of other users and contributors deserve attention,
> to my way of thinking, the longer the "Focus on last used tab" (or however
> it's phrased in Prefs) stays greyed out, the more likely it is that new
> users -- such as myself -- will be inclined to find other things about MZ
> that annoy them and at some point figure continuing to use it isn't worth
> all the bother. None of us want that, I'm sure.
>
> So if anyone has info on the progress of these preferences being enabled,
> please share same with the list asap.

Hi,

I don't speak for anyone, I'm just a user like you, and of course
anyone is free to contribute to this project at any time... but for
now there is apparently no progress. Last nightly build is from
October of last year (and yes, this build also lacks the option you
desire). In fact your message is the first on this list in over two
months.

If you want to try the latest nightly build, which does have some
other improvements (and probably bugs), download this file and replace
your multiviews.jar (you may need to disable XUL cache and restart
Seamonkey, then re-enable XUL cache and restart again)

http://downloads.mozdev.org/multizilla/multiviews-nightly.jar