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: 00:36 on 16 Mar 2007
* Michael G Schwern <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> [2007-03-16 01:20]:
> Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a
> tiny little "close" button on a tiny little tab is?

It's actually a preferrable UI style for casual users. The two
styles have very different affordances.

That said, I made a beeline for the config setting to turn them
off again.

> Fortunately Tab Mix Plus can take it back out again (and
> configure it in all sorts of interesting ways). Yay extensible
> UI! Boo dangerous defaults!

You can control that using `browser.tabs.closeButtons` -- no need
for an extension.

> And the best part is, there's no undo!

You can retrieve them from History -> Recently Closed Tabs though.

I think there even was an unclose-tab function somewhere, but
it's well hidden; I only stumbled onto it accidentally and now
I can't remember or rediscover what obscure gesture invokes it.
Or maybe I hallucinated it -- I'm sufficiently sleep-deprived
lately that this may have happened.

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