Firefox 2.0

I just installed it. The first page that loaded up when I started the app the first time was indeed shaking. However, after a refresh, it stopped. Since I've been to a couple sites briefly (including GFF), I haven't noticed any more shaking, but I will need to use this more to know for certain if it is gone.

Oh, wait, nevermind, I just opened the History sidebar, and now shit is shaking again. WTF LOL. Refreshing helped, but this is ridiculous.

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OK, so now I'm stuck with close buttons on all of my tabs and no side button for closing multiple tabs at once. Fucking fail. Why can't I turn off these close buttons? I have a working middle mouse button; I don't need a close button on each fucking tab.

The spell checker and built in undoclosetab-like functionality is great, but why can't it give me a simple option to change the close button behavior on the tabs? I'll wait until this and the shaking shit gets taken care of before I switch to Firefox 2.

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I think I just solved the shaking problem. I needed to customize my toolbar and restore the default set. Apparently it carried over my settings from a previous Firefox installation on this machine, and it didn't like how the toolbar buttons were set up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just found a way to revert to the FF 1.x style tab close button. Type about:config in the address bar, hit enter (or click Go), scroll down to browser.tabs.closeButtons (or use the search), double-click it, and change the value to 3.

If you don't want any close buttons on the entire tabs bar, you can use the value of 2.

See here for more info:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons

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FYI, my fix is officially the only way to change the behavior of the close buttons on tabs. They have no plans to change back to the old style nor even add an option in the Options menu, because supposedly that old style only caters to a minority of users. Apparently most users haven't learned to use the middle mouse button yet.

See here for more info:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324227

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I use lots of tabs frequently. All of those close buttons really add up in space, and allow for less tabs to be displayed at once. More importantly, I often mis-click stuff, and with all of those close buttons up there, it's like trying to navigate a minefield.

As for the use of far right close button, here's a typical scenario for me. I'm on a picture gallery with 12+ thumbnails on a page. I middle click on each the thumbnails so that the full view of each picture can open up in its own tab. If the particular server is slow to transfer data, I can then use this time to browse another site while that one loads up all of my images (because they're all open in separate tabs). When the loading is all done, I go to the first (or last) full view image.

The thing here is...I only want to skim the images to see if any of them interest me. I very briefly look at the current image, and then close it using the close button on the far right side. I repeat this for each of the 12+ tabs. Look, click close. Look, click close. And so on. Because the close button is always in the same place, I can do this very quickly.

Of course, I could always use Ctrl+W, but that will cramp my hand after a while.

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Another pro-tip for making FF 2.0 more like FF 1.x:

To increase the number of tabs displayed at once, go into about:config and change the value of browser.tabs.tabMinWidth. I have mine set to 0, which is just like just like in 1.x (it only makes each tab as small as the icon on it).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Sosei

* the "manditory-restore-on-reset" feature. Makes restarting a pain, mainly because I often have a few (dozen) tabs open when I have to restart to update extensions (and yes, I have an extension for restarting)

There's an option for it in Options... -> Main -> "When Firefox starts".

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Since I've done what I've described in this post, I haven't had a single shaking problem. In fact, I haven't had any problems with 2.0 since the ones I solved a few posts up.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sosei

Does that option allow you to cancel it from automatically restoring every tab open?

I have that option set to "Show my home page", and I've never had Firefox restore my tabs upon re-open. It's working just like 1.x for me.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The Google ads are part of GFF, though I don't see why anyone should care. Personally, I hardly ever even notice them.

FELIPE NO

A new version of Firefox is out now; 2.0.0.1. Try upgrading.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?