Where the X's Go

[stipe]

I downloaded the Firefox 2.0 release candidate last night and tried it out at home. I can't say I've used it enough (or that it's strikingly different enough) for me to have a lot of strong opinions about it, but it did remind me of a user interface "debate" that seems to be going on right now: when you've got tabs, where do you put the little "X

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[jaq]

I've got used to closing tabs with middle-click, and since I started using Eclipse a bit recently I'm finding it very annoying that middle-click doesn't work in that.

[stipe]

I like that Eclipse has a "Close All" option for tabs. Visual Studio 2005 has "Close all but this", but a lot of the time I just want to give up on all of my tabs and start clean.

[gravilim]

Is there any sort of easy keyboard shortcut for closing tabs in FF? I'd guess I use the keyboard to close mine 95% of the time, unless I happen to need the mouse at the top of the screen anyway. :) (I prefer the x-on-each-tab just because I don't have to be /in/ that tab to be able to close it.)

[stipe]

It seems like something that could be done easily enough (with an extension, if nothing else), but it doesn't look like there's an obvious one. I'm not really in the habit of using keyboard shortcuts when I'm browsing, anyway (I guess because I usually already have one hand on the mouse for link-clickery?).

[fweebles]

Huh, I forgot that FF has the X way over there along the side. One of the many tab-functionality extensions I have installed adds an X to each tab, so this is what I'm used to.

I do use both the "close all tabs" and "close every tab but active" options in Eclipse almost exactly once a day. Usually after I say something like, "holy shit, I have 47 windows open."

[stipe]

FF2.0 puts it there and I can't see any obvious way to turn it off

Hehe... read the last paragraph of my post :)