MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 09/03/2013 20:41, Rickles told the world:
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?
Have you tried middle-clicking on the tab?
No I haven't, simply because I use the middle (mouse wheel) button as a
double-click action, to save wear & tear on the left button. I've had
to replace too many mice because the left button wears out before
anything else on the mouse, so my current Logitech mouse is set up so I
click one button, one time to single-click (left),and one other button,
one time to double-click. More efficient that way. Right-click is
always as expected.
But if I have to re-organize my entire operating method because a choice
has been made that makes it more labor-intensive to do something when it
should be less so (do the PCs work for us, or the other way around?),
then I have to question the overall direction the development is going
to go. Forgive me for being confrontational, but didn't FF make such an
impact on the IE market share because FF did NOT make those sorts of
decisions when it first came out? I must admit I've never used FF on my
systems, it's always been Netscape/Mozilla/SM, just so I don't have to
use IE. (IE is a pain to administer at work, therefore I refuse to use
it at home.) And since the SM project is a follow-on from FF, we lucky,
dedicated fewer users reap those same benefits.
I sincerely appreciate the job that volunteer programmers do to keep
this project alive despite what might sound like nothing but complaints
from users/trolls like me, but when basic functions like closing a
single tab without having to select it first (which is how it used to
work) are taken away without an operational reason defined, or the
long-term bug where clicking the Home button adds new tabs no matter the
preference setting for replacing tabs (bugzilla # escapes me, but which
means the GUI doesn't control the shell despite what the screen tells
the user) become the norm, I gotta wonder who's driving?
At this point, I wouldn't even mind paying for an alternate to the MS
product, if it worked as advertised and changes meant moving forwards in
some logical progression. I like the suite of tools, not just a
browser, and with TB slowly on it's way out of further progression (also
which I've never used), I'm fairly entrenched in using SM. But I'm
concerned, too.
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