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If you’re now using Firefox 2.0, you’ve probably already noticed that tabs now have close buttons by default, instead of having a single tab close button on the far right-hand side of the toolbar. If you preferred the older behaviour, simply navigate to the “about:config” page (type it in like a URL or webpage address), and find the section marked “browser.tabs.closebuttons”. Double-click on this entry, and set the value to 3 to display a single close button at the end of the tab strip (Firefox 1.x behavior).
Alternatively, you can set the value to 0 to display a close button on the active tab only, 1 to display close buttons on all tabs (Default), and set it to “2 to not display any close buttons at all.
taken from the about:config page at MozillaZine
A parting tip: To close the current tab using your keyboard, press CTRL+W. If you close a tab by mistake, just head to History > Recently Closed Tabs, and you can resume work from there (alternatively, you can use the arcane keyboard combo CTRL+SHIFT+T).
If you prefer using your mouse and want an even faster way about it - try the middle-mouse click (that’s typically a scroll button). When you click the scroll on any tab it instantly closes the tab for you. I have been using this method quite a bit lately. Though it seemed quite alien at first, I quickly got used to it and it’s now a major part of my Firefox 2 workflow.
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OK, so everyone is very excited about Firefox 2. I’m excited, your excited, all the social networks are ablaze.
But development does not stop at whole numbers, and the testing must go on - which is how we got here.
So I’m testing Firefox 3 (Minefield). That’s right, I won’t be outdone. I must run the most unstable software. Well at least on the test boxes. So currently the Vista, Leopard, and Edgy boxes are running “firefox-3.0a1″.
The first things you will notice are the graphics - everything has a nice sheen to it (in fact, looks just like Firefox 2!), while remaining true to the normal Firefox UI. Also of note is the fact that favorites are now run using a SQLite3 database. For the full list of features, head on over to the Burning Edge page.
Firefox 3.0a1 Toolbar
New Tabs in Firefox 3.0a1 Minefield
As far as I can tell this is just as stable as Bon Echo was (that’s right - was stable for me), with inline spell-checking and some other fancy goodies.That’s all for now, some more screenshots from other platforms (other than Windows XP of course) and crash reports as they happen
Note: of course this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I’m sorry for the Mozilla devs. We all need to stop worrying about the cutting edge and appreciate what we have - fantastic browsers! Opera, Safari, IE7 and Firefox are all great, really.
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