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No, you're still missing the point. I never said anything about not using the middle click to close tabs. That's precisely how I close tabs. When you have as ma

No, you're still missing the point. I never said anything about not using the middle click to close tabs. That's precisely how I close tabs. When you have as many tabs open as I often do... the resizing ruins the ability to quickly close tabs in succession. I would again ask that you actually go try it rather than assume you know what I'm talking about. Trust me, the way I can target a tab and rapidly close lots of tabs (YES, by using the middle click SPECIFICALLY) does NOT work in Firefox 4. Please try it yourself rather than force me to make a video of it. Open 8 tabs in Firefox. Target the third tab and without moving your mouse, close tabs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It's not possible. The tabs resize and you end up closing tabs 1 and 2. I don't know how you browse the web, but I daily find myself opening numerous tabs and then wanting to close the last several after opening lots of pictures or articles on reddit. (But then again I'm in Linux and scroll on my tabs in Chrome so I move my mouse very little as it is and it suits my browsing habit.)

wtallis 15y ago
In that scenario, I'd put my cursor over the last tab, and middle click 6 times, possibly having to move the cursor for the last one or two. Or, I'd more likely have tabs 1 and 2 pinned as app tabs (probably gmail and pandora, in my case), in which case I can flail with any close tab action without problem. Also, I browse with browser.tabs.closeButtons set to 3, which gives me a fixed-position close button at the end of the tab bar. (And on my laptop, I close tabs with a gesture that doesn't require me to move the cursor at all.) Delayed resizing is a neat feature, and one that Firefox should copy, but it is not as critical as you make it out to be.
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  >Delayed resizing is a neat feature, and one that Firefox should copy, but it is not as critical as you make it out to be. How on Earth can you possibly say this? Besides it being a matter of opinion, it's highly lauded as good UX (which I believe and have heard numerous other Chrome users swear by), and you can't possibly know how often I use it or how frustrating it is to use Firefox with it's default behavior.
sjwright 15y ago
In that scenario, I'd select the first tab and pound CTRL-W

wtallis 15y ago

In that scenario, I'd put my cursor over the last tab, and middle click 6 times, possibly having to move the cursor for the last one or two. Or, I'd more likely have tabs 1 and 2 pinned as app tabs (probably gmail and pandora, in my case), in which case I can flail with any close tab action without problem. Also, I browse with browser.tabs.closeButtons set to 3, which gives me a fixed-position close button at the end of the tab bar. (And on my laptop, I close tabs with a gesture that doesn't require me to move the cursor at all.) Delayed resizing is a neat feature, and one that Firefox should copy, but it is not as critical as you make it out to be.

drivebyacct2 15y ago
>Delayed resizing is a neat feature, and one that Firefox should copy, but it is not as critical as you make it out to be. How on Earth can you possibly say this? Besides it being a matter of opinion, it's highly lauded as good UX (which I believe and have heard numerous other Chrome users swear by), and you can't possibly know how often I use it or how frustrating it is to use Firefox with it's default behavior.

sjwright 15y ago

In that scenario, I'd select the first tab and pound CTRL-W