Firefox 2.0 - Fix tabs
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The new Firefox release is great, especially the built in and seamlessly integrated spell checker, this should dramatically improve all those poorly spelled posts and web pages we see everywhere. The new glass theme and highlighting is an improvement (in my opinion) and new built in Phishing tools are also a positive development. Other noteworthy features include session saver, and suggestions in the search box. To test this release with regards to the ill-fated memory leak I loaded up a page of 20 or so animated GIFs which previous versions would choke on and die a painful death, the page still saw a large increase in page-file usage and some slow down but after browsing away from the page it all disappeared and I didn't have to restart the browser.
A couple of things I don't like, or maybe I am just not used to, are the changes to tabs. The changes give a fixed minimum width and a horizontal scrollable toolbar when the number of tabs exceed the screen width and also a "Close" icon on each tab. So I thought it would be helpful to state here how to change the tabs back to "the old style" ( i.e. FF 1.x):
Remove Close Button
To remove the close button from each tab and instead place one button in the top right, in the about:config file change browser.tabs.closeButtons to "3"
(For more details see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons ).
Fit More Tabs on the Page
To do this you have to reduce the minimum width of tabs. Once again, using the about:config file change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a value of your choice. The changes will not be apparent until you restart Firefox.
For the complete run down visit: Mozillazine
A couple of things I don't like, or maybe I am just not used to, are the changes to tabs. The changes give a fixed minimum width and a horizontal scrollable toolbar when the number of tabs exceed the screen width and also a "Close" icon on each tab. So I thought it would be helpful to state here how to change the tabs back to "the old style" ( i.e. FF 1.x):
Remove Close Button
To remove the close button from each tab and instead place one button in the top right, in the about:config file change browser.tabs.closeButtons to "3"
(For more details see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons ).
Fit More Tabs on the Page
To do this you have to reduce the minimum width of tabs. Once again, using the about:config file change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a value of your choice. The changes will not be apparent until you restart Firefox.
For the complete run down visit: Mozillazine
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