Rickles wrote:
According to the Add-Ons search, the closest thing is a right-click menu tool that is accessed anywhere inside the tab window of the page being viewed, to close that page. But I agree, the X on the tab name is the simplest, most direct and obvious means of closing any tab at any time. EVERY single other implementation, internal to SM or any add-on, makes it so that you have to have focus on the tab you want to close, before you can close it. I'm a firm believer in working smarter, not harder, but this flies in the face of that. I wish I had the time to become a programmer so I could write my own such tool, but it's just not possible. It would help my understanding if someone involved in the coding or review process could explain the logic of using 2 steps to take the action instead of one. Takers?
This has been discussed before. The current way of having the tab close X at a fixed position on the far right of the tab bar works better for the way many people use the browser (including me) than having it on each tab the way Firefox does. And having it on the tab also takes up more room on the tab bar leaving less for tabs.
For example, if I go to a page of headlines I'll open links to things I want to read in new tabs. Then I'll go to the last tab and read it. When done I will close the tab and the next one will automatically get the focus, I don't have to move the mouse cursor off the close x. I can read all the tabs and close them without any mouse movement and only a click when I'm done. I do the same thing with forums, scroll down the new posts screen and open any that interest me in new tabs and read them and close in order.
Let me pose a question to you. Why would you want to close a tab that doesn't have the focus? I'm not sure I can understand why someone wouldn't close tabs when they were done with them and they still have the focus instead of coming back later to close them when they no longer had the focus.
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