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Tabs were one of the major reasons I switched over to Chrome. At the time, firefox resized the tabs as soon as space became available, making closing a bunch of

Tabs were one of the major reasons I switched over to Chrome. At the time, firefox resized the tabs as soon as space became available, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain. They don't do that anymore, but now they have the tab scrolling feature which adds a gui element if there are too many tabs. Thing is, once you close enough tabs, those elements go away immediately, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain. Biggest reason I switched, which is still the true (though less so), is that Chrome takes up less screen real estate.

soperj 12y ago
Ctrl-w kills a tab. Makes that kind of thing completely painless.
- kevinbowman 12y ago
  As does middle-click, which is super-handy.
- ntsh 12y ago
  Sometimes Ctrl+w can lead to horrible pain if you accidentally hit Q which is just next to w.
  - dergachev 12y ago
    Chrome has a menu item toggle called "Warn before quitting" that I just enabled, and it has already saved me a bunch of times!!!! In OSX it's under the Chrome menu item (before File), don't know where they stuck it in Windows.
    - Cthulhu_ 12y ago
      I don't think Windows has it, also because the keyboard command to exit an application is alt+f4, which isn't easy to hit on accident.
    - wutbrodo 12y ago
      I can't seem to find this in my settings : (. This bit me every once in a while, and as I keep hundreds of tabs open, it's a huge pain in the ass to restore Chrome. I ended up remapping the ctrl+q shortcut to do nothing.
  - kalleboo 12y ago
    On Mac OS X at least, you can just remap Command-Q to something that's harder to press by mistake in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
  - Luyt 12y ago
    Restart Firefox, then choose History/Restore previous session.
  - kasabali 12y ago
    This is pretty horrible but fortunately easy to fix. I use an extension called disable ctrl q or similar.
- dzhiurgis 12y ago
  BetterTouchTool: map 4 finger swipe up to cmd+w.
liyuanli 12y ago
I switched to Chrome a few years ago for the same reason. Another reason was Chrome had an 'omnibar' that takes in both urls and search queries. I was instantly sold on that.
- scholia 12y ago
  Browser world has change a lot in the past two years.....

soperj 12y ago

Ctrl-w kills a tab. Makes that kind of thing completely painless.

kevinbowman 12y ago
As does middle-click, which is super-handy.
ntsh 12y ago
Sometimes Ctrl+w can lead to horrible pain if you accidentally hit Q which is just next to w.
- dergachev 12y ago
  Chrome has a menu item toggle called "Warn before quitting" that I just enabled, and it has already saved me a bunch of times!!!! In OSX it's under the Chrome menu item (before File), don't know where they stuck it in Windows.
  - Cthulhu_ 12y ago
    I don't think Windows has it, also because the keyboard command to exit an application is alt+f4, which isn't easy to hit on accident.
  - wutbrodo 12y ago
    I can't seem to find this in my settings : (. This bit me every once in a while, and as I keep hundreds of tabs open, it's a huge pain in the ass to restore Chrome. I ended up remapping the ctrl+q shortcut to do nothing.
- kalleboo 12y ago
  On Mac OS X at least, you can just remap Command-Q to something that's harder to press by mistake in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
- Luyt 12y ago
  Restart Firefox, then choose History/Restore previous session.
- kasabali 12y ago
  This is pretty horrible but fortunately easy to fix. I use an extension called disable ctrl q or similar.
dzhiurgis 12y ago
BetterTouchTool: map 4 finger swipe up to cmd+w.

liyuanli 12y ago

I switched to Chrome a few years ago for the same reason. Another reason was Chrome had an 'omnibar' that takes in both urls and search queries. I was instantly sold on that.

scholia 12y ago
Browser world has change a lot in the past two years.....