Re: FW: Removing the close tab button when too many tabs are open (FF vs Chrome behavior)

On 9/21/11 2:52 PM, nick rundy wrote:
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> I LOVE how the close button is hidden in Firefox. Remember, you can close a tab with a middle-click.
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> I filed a bug report with Chromium because they do not hide the close button when many tabs are opened.
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> One of the things I find is that when many tabs are opened, it is easy to accidentally click the close button because the tab size is so small. I think hiding the close button is ideal. It allows you to click the tab and not have to be so precise as to miss the close button.  And middle-click gives you the option of closing with a single-click.
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>> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:14:01 +0200
>> From: [email protected]
>> Subject: Removing the close tab button when too many tabs are open (FF vs	Chrome behavior)
>> To: [email protected]
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>> When I have too many open tabs, the close tab button disappears
>> for every tab except the one currently being displayed. If I want to
>> close another tab, I have to click on it first before I can close it.
>> Obviously, it is kind of annoying to have to go through this extra
>> step.
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>> Now, this behavior is the same in both Firefox and Chrome, except that
>> in the latter I can have way more tabs open before the close tab button
>> disappears (on my Macbook Pro, with 1680x1050 display resolution,
>> and both browsers maximized, I can have about 11 open tabs in
>> Firefox, and about 26 open tabs in Chrome).
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>> For smaller window sizes, the number of tabs I can have open is even
>> smaller. It regularly happens to me that the close tab button
>> disappears in Firefox with only 6 tabs open. In Chrome, on the other
>> hand, I rarely, if ever, run into this problem.
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>> Wouldn't it be nice to raise the number of tabs that can be opened in
>> Firefox before the close tab button disappeared?
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Interesting! So it looks like your experience (and subsequent response 
;-)) has been the complete opposite of mine!

I am curious though, with so many different opinions on the matter, how 
does a question like this usually get resolved? Do we base it on some 
statistic on what the largest part of our user base prefers? Or do we 
resolve it by some form of meritocratic process?


Eddy