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Martin Ebourne wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny little >> "close" button on a tiny little tab is? X-Chat Aqua used to do this but they >> sensible took it out. Firefox used to do this but they unsensibly put it back >> in! > > You're wrong. > > Well, you're right for you I presume, but definitely not right for > everyone. Can't we all just hate everyone? > I find browsers where there isn't a close icon on every tab unusable and > hateful. You know, every window on the desktop has its own close icon > and I didn't hear you complain about that. Windows on the desktop tend to be more than half an inch wide. Big long window bar, teeny little close button. Makes it hard to hit the wrong spot. Though I notice Firefox got a few things right. The close button disappears on inactive windows when the tab goes below a certain width, that's good. Tab Mix Plus also provides the option to only have the close button on the active tab which avoids the mistake of accidentally clicking the close button when selecting a tab. That's good, too. > Or maybe you've only got one > close icon on the whole desktop which only closes the active window I do, except its on my keyboard and it has the letter "w" on it. > My style of browsing frequently involves closing of tabs which are not > currently active. It is intensely annoying to have to select each tab > before closing it, 10 times more efficient to hit a load of close icons. > I'm no casual user either. We're at the point of splitting efficiency hairs, but mousing around to hit a small button ten times... oh, and they move and change width every time you close a tab, seems more annoying then selecting one, hitting apple-w to close it, sliding to the next with ctrl-apple-arrow, apple-w to close, slide, close, slide, close. Or if they're in sequence you select the first one and then hit apple-w 10 times. 10 tabs rapidly closed, no careful mousing required, hands on the keyboard. But hey, do it your way. That's why we have configurable UIs.There's stuff above here
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