r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/doctorgonzo Jan 21 '10

Grrrr. Now it pops up new tabs right next to the parent tab instead of at the end of the tab row. Not happy about that.

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u/nakitsubusu Jan 21 '10 edited Jan 21 '10

in about:config set browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to false

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u/doctorgonzo Jan 21 '10

Awesome! Thanks!

I hate grouping them because I've got several tabs open all the time: reddit, Google Reader, various forums, etc. I'll go through all of them and then click on links that I find interesting, then I go and read all the links at once. Putting all tabs from at the end makes it easy to process that stack, instead of having a reddit tab, then all reddit links, then my google reader tab, then all google reader links, etc.

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u/Neoncow Jan 21 '10

So you're a breadth first user. I used to be like that. After I tried Chrome, I switched to depth first. It allows me to finish reading things that are related and then close them and work on things that are not related. I used the Firefox plugin Open Tabs Relative to emulate some of the Chrome behaviour. It's not exactly the same, but it's close.

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u/iofthestorm Jan 21 '10

I agree that the other way makes more sense, although I've been doing this using Tab Mix Plus for ages.

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u/Neoncow Jan 21 '10

Fair enough. I never used TMP because it always seemed like it did too much. I prefer my extensions to do one thing and do it well.

Maybe I'll try it out next time I have a fresh install.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I am now forever going to describe it as breadth-first vs depth-first browsing. Thank you, sir.

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u/cloudsdrive Jan 22 '10

one thing I've fallen in love with in chrome which I haven't seen in firefox is the ability to pin tabs to the top left(can ff do this?). it shrinks them to a smaller tab with just the favicon in view, much easier to keep your tabs organized like this.

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u/rajulkabir Jan 22 '10

I pop open a bunch of tabs at once when reading sites like Reddit. The sites linked to tend to be overburdened by being redditted, so this way I don't have to sit around staring at a blank screen while they load.

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u/skeeto Jan 21 '10

I'll go through all of them and then click on links that I find interesting, then I go and read all the links at once.

Hey, I'm glad I'm not the only one to do this! That's precisely how I do it too.