Philip TAYLOR wrote:
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
"For many people". Could you adduce some statistics
to support that statement ?
Philip Taylor
No, I know of no workflow or usability studies that actually provide
statistics. My statement was based on user observation and comments
in past discussions of this issue. Perhaps "For some people" would
have been a better choice of words. But it would be really
interesting to see actually statistics on what percentage of time
people close a tab that does not have the focus versus closing the
currently active tab.
Probably the best solution is to give the user a choice thru a
preference (browser.tabs.closeButton) of how they want the close
button displayed, as Firefox does
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons . Actually
SeaMonkey has that preference but I don't know if it actually supports
the other options. As I prefer the way it is (default option 3) I
have never tried any of the other to see if they are supported or not.
--
Jim
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