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Best new feature: Multiple tab closing behavior is more like Chrome's now - http://www.theinvisibl.com/2009/12/08/chrometabs/

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Love the Chrome-like tab closing behavior. Annoying that a tab has to have focus to get the on-tab "X" though.

(EDIT: Only when #tabs > 9 it seems. Otherwise all tabs have the "X".)

Try this: Turn off the x's as they just waste space. Then close tabs with a middle click or Ctrl+W.

Middle click to close those tabs.

Thankfully I can as my Thinkpad has a 3rd button. The majority of laptop users won't be so lucky.

Hitting both buttons usually simulates a middle-click.

If your drivers are clever you can do it with the trackpad, too - sometimes tapping the pad with two fingers will middle-click. Less error-prone than using the buttons.

Or Ctrl+Click if you don't have a middle button (e.g. laptops). Ctrl+W works on the active tab as well.

Unless you're on a flash page, because flash captures your keyboard, because flash hates you.

By contrast, for Chrome #tabs > 24

> 28 for for me. I assume it is dependant on the width of tabs, not the number.

I much prefer Seamonkey's "tab close button on right" feature.

Feels like a step backwards to me. I preferred when I closed a tab it would resize immediately. Now I have to wait until I move the mouse away.

I will now transfer 1 UNC (UNicorn Coin) to the devs for this. Definitely a feature that should have been there earlier.

However there is a bug, clicking the X sometimes causes the need to click it twice because the first time it is ignored.

I havent seen this on linux yet, is it still ugly as all hell or did they improve it like they did with windows version?

It is buggy with the x having to be clicked twice if you close too fast.

Edit: Try it yourself if you disagree.

That's a feature, not a bug. One of the things I dislike about Chrome is this tendency to auto-close two or three tabs if you cannot easily control how many times you click rapidly. That is, I can somewhat reliably double click, but fairly often an intended single click becomes a double click instead, or a double becomes a triple. (I thought my father had a lot of trouble learning the difference between single and double click back in the 90s, even while he protested that he knew the difference, but now I totally understand why he wasn't following directions...). Having the next tab's close button typically not land under the pointer prevents this from happening most of the time, but I'm glad they put some thought into this and enforced a delay before the second click would close the tab.

My guess is that there are more people accidentally closing extra tabs than people who want to close a lot of tabs they haven't seen in a while.

Yep, my guess is that it's a failsafe for those "always double-click everything" people like my mother. Taskbar icons, submit buttons, hyperlinks, dock icons, EVERYTHING.

Yeah, but cmd-shift-t brings them back when I get clickclickclick happy. I'd rather click fewer times.

I agree that that shortcut is very, very useful. I need it many times a day. :)

I can understand that, but having tried both, I'll happily stick with the Chrome way.

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