Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"
Date: 00:48 on 16 Mar 2007
* Michael G Schwern <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> [2007-03-16 00:15]:
> I'd never noticed this behavior before, and I tried it out and
> it wasn't how my Firefox works.  Turns out to be a side-effect
> of the wonderful Tab Mix Plus add-on which has many wonderful
> benefits.
> 
> While on the subject of tabs, I'd also recommend the "No Tab
> Close Button" add-on which eliminates the oh-so easy to
> accidentally click "close tab" button Firefox decided to put on
> their tabs after everyone else had removed them.  Sort of like
> putting a pile of jagged glass on the right hand side of every
> seat in the house.

Getting rid of the per-tab close buttons can be done with just
`about:config`, as I mentioned in the other mail, without the
need for an extension.

The problem is I already have 16 extensions in the Firefox on my
main machine, and that's not counting the DOM Inspector and
Talkback that come pre-installed. And 5 of them are unbreak-me
extensions. I really try not to add even more to the mix because
Firefox is slow and memory hungry enough as it is.

I used an extension to make tabs draggable back when they weren't
(pre-1.0 I think? I don't remember), but when that capability was
added to stock Firefox, I dropped the extension like a hot
potato. The various tabbing enhancement extensions used to be the
worst offenders in terms of drag, noticably slowing down the
browser, although that was a long time ago and I don't know what
things are like now.

Since then, the basic Firefox tabbing has always worked well
enough for me.

Guess that's no longer true. *snarl*

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;

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