On laptops with two buttons usually clicking both buttons at once simulates a middle click. That's what I use to close tabs on my laptop.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:29, Itai<[email protected]> wrote: > > Using the keyboard is not for everybody, when using the mouse I really > hate to reach over for the keyboard. That's why I never use 'CTRL- > CLICK' for example. > > On closing, the close buttons are not needed at all with 3-button mice > (most scroll-wheels quality) and you only need to aim for the tab > which is much more > efficient. Most laptops (pretty much all non-Thinkpads) do not have > the middle-button. It would be nice if we could detect and not have > the close button when > a 3-button mouse is detected. There would be no need for options. > Using Firefox, I have to manually do that for each installation which > is tedious but makes > tab titles longer when the close button is not there. > > On systems with only two buttons, I guess they could be bigger, > specially considering much such systems are laptops with trackpads > which are quite > imprecise. > > - Itai > > On Aug 10, 6:06 pm, Massimo Gengarelli <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:47:11AM -0700, jhrelic wrote: >> >> > Sending a suggestion for wider tab close x button. My personal >> > practice is to use a lot of tabs >> > and it´s pretty annoying to do precise targeting of x button. A few >> > more active pixels of red square >> > woud be a great saviour of wasted click energy. >> >> Honestly, I prefer them to be tiny.. Try to get used to the ^W shortcut.. >> Would be nice if this could be a choice in the options, something like: >> 1) show tiny x icon by default >> 2) show huge x icon >> 3) do not show x icon >> >> > Tab count would be a nice feature too. Not as a plugin. :) >> >> Yeah! >> >> --- >> Greetings, >> Massimo Gengarelli. >> >> Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead >> lawyer in the road? >> A: There are skid marks in front of the dog. > > > -- Caleb Eggensperger http://calebegg.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
