Tab X Firefox Extension

Tuesday, May. 31 2005 | Author: Scrivs

One nitpick I have with the tab system of Firefox is that to close a tab with a mouse I have to click on a tiny x in the upper right corner. Although I usually just use the Command-W combination, certain times call for a mouse click. If you don’t hit the X just right you will click a blank space which produces another tab.

Tab X takes care of this by adding Xs to all the tabs so now I can clear individual tabs without having to right-click on it. Why this isn’t done by default is beyond me.

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11 Responses for "Tab X Firefox Extension"

Not Bill

May 31st, 2005 at 11:45 am
1

You can also middle-click on a tab to close it
cliche

May 31st, 2005 at 11:51 am
2

I remember an extention to close tab with double click, and it was so nice. I just can’t find it anymore…
Scrivs

May 31st, 2005 at 12:04 pm
3

Can’t middle click in OS X unless you change the mapping of expose.
fred

May 31st, 2005 at 2:54 pm
4

Safari puts Xs on each tab–and I hate it! Say what you like about having just a single “X” on the side, but that single “X” on the side strongly reduces the probability of “accidentally” hitting an “X” when you meant to hit the tab. IMO, per-tab Xs are a design defect because the colocation of the “delete” and “select” hit zones makes it all too easy to accidentally hit the wrong zone and get a very undesired behavior (more so when lots of tabs are open so that the width of the X is a large proportion of the width of the tab). Oops! Where’d my tab go?! :-)
Phill Bryant

May 31st, 2005 at 10:00 pm
5

cliche: try extensionsmirror.nl . They have pretty much every Firefox extension ever repackaged for 1.0x
Bernie Zimmermann

May 31st, 2005 at 10:05 pm
6

Can’t middle click? You’re missing out!
Mark

May 31st, 2005 at 10:34 pm
7

Tabbrowser Extensions provides a huge array of customisations for tabs. Putting ‘X’ where you want is one of many many options. Double-click to close, or middle-click, or ctlr-click, or right-click. Hover the mouse over a tab to switch to that tab. Group tabs and colourise them. Set a tab to refress every x seconds… And lots more.

The flexibility is amazing, it’s my favourite extension.
thenightfly42

June 1st, 2005 at 12:26 pm
8

Regarding OS X: the middle-mouse button will not require remapping when Firefox 1.1 is released. I’m using the nightlies, the fix is already in and it works wonderfully.
freddy

June 2nd, 2005 at 3:15 am
9

try mouse gestures :p
eddie

June 5th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
10

tab mix is an extension that gives you different options for closing tabs. It also gives you a lot of diffferentoptions for tabs
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March 30th, 2006 at 5:07 am
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