After upgrading to the latest nightly build of Firefox 2.0 I noticed two features that I haven’t seen before. One of the features was an “Undo Close Tab” button when you right-click on the tab-bar or on a tab. This allows a user to recover a site that they may have just accidentally closed. This is great because ever since they put that little red “X” on each tab I have accidentally closed sites several times.
The other feature that I don’t like very much is a scrolling tab-bar. When you open too many tabs Firefox will put scroll buttons on each end of the tab-bar. On my 1280×800 laptop screen it only allows me to open 10 tabs before it displays the scroll buttons. Hopefully they will end up letting users choose the minimum size of the tabs before the scroll buttons appear, otherwise I am sure there will be an extension to cure this!
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That cool and all. But can I give a shout to the community? Can we have a back and forward gesture for our mouse pads? I mean, gEEz…It’s the only thing IE has over us. I wish I was as smart as you guys, and I’d do it myself.
@ 1st post.
There’s a extension that lets you do that..
Clicking left and right on a horizontal scroll-bar always felt tedious. It’s like scrolling through sheets in Excel — not enough sight ahead and back through the list to make it anything other than looking through every one. Are there any other techniques for this kind of thing?
Could they overflow tabs onto a second row? That’s only like another toolbar’s height taken away from the webpage
any word on it being able to run on the Visa Beta ?
Here are the three mouse gestures extension I found:
1. [addons.mozilla.org]
2. [addons.mozilla.org]
3. [addons.mozilla.org]
All-In-One Gestures has the most downloads but hasn’t been updated since November of 2005. Mouse Gestures is catching up and almost has 1 million downloads and was just updated in April of 2006. Hope that helps.
-Ryan
I have run Firefox 2.0 (Bon Echo) in Vista Beta 2 before without any issues. I haven’t tried the latest version yet.
-Ryan
I’d assume the scroll buttons for the tab menu are just meant as a quick fix for the bug where you open too many tabs and new ones arent visible on the tab bar. Its not the most elegant solution but it fixes the bug without otherwise changing the behaviour. It would be handy if you could also scroll around them using the mousewheel as you hover anywhere on the tab bar, but other than that I wouldnt like it changing the default behaviour (though more options are always good).
The extension [tmp.garyr.net] lets you overflow tabs into rows rather than scrolling them out of view. Much preferable I think.
opera has the same thing
[opera.com]
I think the IE7 implementation of overflow tabs is the best one. They have a preview window where you can see thumbnails of all the tabs, a drop down menu where you can select any tab (it also gives an indication of the tab you are currently on, in the menu itself) AND the left and right scroll.
If you had the ‘Tab mix plus extension’ you could have solved all of those problems, including the scrolling and the red X. It comes with many other useful features as well.
Next time check for the latest or most popular extensions.
I have used the Tab Mix Plus extension before but I feel that I don’t need it because Firefox 2.0 has many of the features that I used in it, like the Session Saver.
I actually like having the “X” on each tab but sometimes I accidentally press it, which is why I love the Undo Close Tab.
The scroll bar is a nice idea except I would like to open maybe 20 tabs before it starts to scroll. I don’t mind having small tabs but I do like having a lot in one window that I can view at the same time. In the next few days I am sure someone will find the about:config option that you can set to disable the scrolling *crossing my fingers*!
-Ryan
I hope it also has a multi line option as scrolling across 20 tabs or so will get annoying.
The answer to tab overflow, in my opinion is [users.blueprintit.co.uk]~dave/web/firefox/TabSidebar/.
The name says it all. I do wish it, however, was better able to read some of the functionality from Tab Mix Plus – like the contextual menus to duplicate tabs, and things like that. Otherwise, though, a vertical list of tabs, rather thana horizontal row, is definitely the answer.
Opera baby……Opera
I’ve moved away from official Firefox/Mozilla now that I’m on a mac, and I use Camino. I like the way that Camino handles this better than the scroll bars at either end (which I agree is very cumbersome, but I suppose better than nothing). When you get too many tabs there is a button that look sorta like “>>”. When you click it there is a drop down menu of the names of all of the tabs that you can’t currently see.
Undo close tab though I eagerly await to be propagated to Camino. Very nice.
Tab Mix Plus do it nice!
There is an extension called [addons.mozilla.org] which (funnily enough) undoes the last closed tab, up to a maximum of three tabs. I’ve been using it for months and it’s a Godsend!
Thanks for the excellent information! With [keith.hostmatrix.org] (Firefox Alpha release), I find that I kept closing the tabs accidentally, because I have been used to clicking on the “x” so frequently. This new features is certainly very useful. Thanks once again!
I just download Netscape 8.1 And OMG was I shocked! why would any one want to use Firefox?
Hmm.. another great feature they have managed to copy from Opera.
Opera leads the way again.
Am I missing something here or is everyone overlooking [addons.mozilla.org]? It already has [img518.imageshack.us] just right-click on top of any tab and you’ll see the option. You can even goto the settings (Menu->>Main Context Menu) to get a [img145.imageshack.us] I think they just wanted to incorporate the best features of [addons.mozilla.org]….thats all, but its already here for everyone to use, nothing really new. But I am glad these useful options are going to be pre-installed in firefox 2.0.
I think that many of us know these features are in Tab Mix Plus but I don’t use that extension anymore because I don’t need the features from it. I try to minimize the number of extensions I use to prevent high memory usage.
-Ryan
As I work with several programs that are forced to show their interface all over the desktop, I wish I could set Firefox to be ALWAYS ON TOP.
Thank you…
Fernando.
@Fernando, it can be… on the K Desktop Environment, which is scheduled to run on Windows sooner or later (or everything else already).
Well, I’m glad they are copying my favorite features from Opera. I prefer Firefox atm.
With all the new extensions I just found out about, I’m loving firefox even more.
Any extensions in particular that you want to share?
Just another reason to stick with Firefox
this is great news. further reason why nobody should still be using IE.
I like tab mix plus for this also.