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

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"
Date: 08:29 on 16 Mar 2007
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.

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. Or maybe you've only got one
close icon on the whole desktop which only closes the active window,
perhaps that's something mac os does with its one menu bar for the whole
desktop (yuck).

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.

Cheers,

Martin.

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