Re: A couple of things that annoy me in Firefox compared to Chrome

On 11/15/2011 4:06 PM, Art Kocsis wrote:
> On Sep 20, 4:03 am, Eddy Bruel <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > 2. 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.
>  >
>  > This behavior is the same in bothFirefoxand 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).
>  >
>  > For smaller window sizes, the number of tabs I can have open is even
>  > smaller. It regularly happens tomethat the close tab button
>  > disappears inFirefoxwith only 6 tabs open. In Chrome, on the other
>  > hand, I rarely, if ever, run into this problem, because of the higher
>  > limit.
>  >
>  > Wouldn't it be possible to raise the number of tabs that can be
>  > opened inFirefoxbefore the close tab button disappeared?
>
> 1) Having the close tab button only appear on the active tab is the
> preferred
> behavior for me - the alternative is very dangerous. With lots of tabs open
> (with horizontal tabs), it is very easy to click on and close the wrong
> tab.
>
> 2) Using the Vertical Tab extension completely obviates the entire issue as
> well as offering tremendous benefits:
>
> You can easily have 50 or more tabs open with full legibility and complete,
> quick control of the tab width (via mouse click & drag).
>
> The close button only appears on the active tab but reappears on
> mouse-over.
>
> Offers a number of tab management actions via a right click menu.
>
> Eliminates the horizontal tab bar which increases the vertical browser
> window
> by about 25 pixels
>
> It also works quite well with the TabGroupsManager extension to allow you
> to easily organize and manage a dozen (named) columns/groups of 50 open
> tabs each! (Plus a lot more goodies.)
>
> These extensions improve the usability of FF so much that they are absolute
> must-haves for me. Without them it would be like going back to a rotary
> dial
> from a touch-tone or back to DOS from a GUI.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs/
> https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/tabgroups-manager/
>
If you use enough tabs to cover the side of the screen, and keep them 
open.  Otherwise, you lose a significant part of your screen.  For those 
of us who rarely have more than 3 or 4 tabs open, it is worse than 
useless.  Nothing is optimal for EVERYONE.