Jim Taylor wrote:
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.
Quite simply because if I know I don't have any further reason for a
particular tab being open, and it's not currently selected, why can't I
close it without having to select it? These things used to work that way.
I can read the titles, and I simply will not have more than approx. 8
tabs open at the same time, so it's not difficult to keep track mentally
of what each one is. I have learned over time that it's a waste of time
& effort to have to juggle too many tabs in the browser, such that the
tab titles are all invisible due to bunching too many together. It's
like too many windows open in the task bar in Windows. I'm forever
having to 'solve' a user's problems at work with PC performance or
program conflicts, and it's always the same--they have so many windows
open, a lot of them duplicates, that their PC grinds to a halt. Like
having the same Windows Explorer folder open in 4 places, making a
change in one, then later focusing on another and not seeing the change
because that window hasn't refreshed for some reason.
PCs are here to work for us, not the other way around. And why should
we work harder, why can't we work smarter?
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