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Mon, 09 Oct 2006 Firefox 2.0   >>

Yesterday I upgraded my home machine to Edgy Eft. This brings me, beside all kinds of nice goodies, Firefox 2.0 which is cool too of course.

FF 2.0 however changed the UI for closing tab - instead of one close button at the right side of the tab bar, it now has, by default, close buttons on each individual tab.

You can think of this whatever you like (apparently actual research has been conducted for the usability of closing tabs), but I was very much used to closing multiple tabs without having to move my mouse around.

Luckily there's user preference option that brings back my right hand side close button (and there're more possibilities BTW):

browser.tabs.closeButtons  3

(if this option is not yet available, you can add a new integer-type option in the about:config page.)