Rickles wrote: > 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. Just curious as to why you have to double click so much. I have mine to open files and folders with a single click.. Just wondering.
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