[ale] Firefox 2.0 tab close

Watson, Keith R. krwatson at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Oct 30 08:26:23 EST 2006


Someone on the list mentioned that they didn't like the location of the
tab close button in Firefox 2.0. You can change it back to the 1.x
method by changing the config setting browser.tabs.closeButtons from a 1
to a 3.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons

To change the tab close behaviour back to Firefox 1.x method.

1. Load the page about:config

2. Scroll down the browser.tabs.closeButtons setting

3. Right click the value browser.tabs.closeButtons and click modify

4. Change the value to 3 and press enter

5. Quit and restart Firefox for the changes to take effect

keith


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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA  30332-0280




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