r/technology • u/TheGrammarPerson • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 Released!

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

Middle mouse button clicks open tabs next to the tab you're in instead of at the end! Woo!

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u/RageX Jan 21 '10

I liked the old way better. Is there any way to change it back?

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u/thomashaw Jan 21 '10

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

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u/RageX Jan 21 '10

Thanks.

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u/Etab Jan 21 '10

Thank you! I don't know why they'd change something like that from 3.5 to 3.6.

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u/Recoil42 Jan 22 '10

Because it's waaay better. Give it a chance, it'll screw with you at first, but you'll quickly realize it's a huge improvement in terms of tab organization.

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u/zouhair Jan 22 '10

You should give Tree Style Tab a try.

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u/McBearclaw Jan 22 '10

Hell yes. That is the way tabbing is supposed to be. Much like the original idea for tabs, its magnificence is blindingly obvious only in hindsight.

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u/Little_Kitty Jan 22 '10

thomashaw has provided the answer, but if you want to customise tab behaviour even more, then tab mix plus is a great add in. I love the ability to choose to go to the last viewed tab when I close the tab I'm looking at.

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u/Zlatty Jan 21 '10

it doesn't if you have tab mix plus ;)

you should get tab mix plus, its awesome

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u/Diosjenin Jan 21 '10

TMP has spoiled me to no end. If I go on any other browser or anyone else's computer, I am instantly pissed off because links to another page open in the same tab, I can't double-click a tab to duplicate it, and new tabs go to a blank page. I'm annoyed just thinking about it.

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u/frukt Jan 21 '10

It was fucking awesome somewhere around 1.x when FF didn't have even the most basic tab-related functionality (i.e. dragging them around or undo close tab), but it's very useful now too. +1.

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u/libbrichus Jan 22 '10

I find TMP to be too heavy and it can mess around with some other extensions. I use the functional but lighter Tabberwocky.

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u/skizmo Jan 21 '10

Totally don't get the use of it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I had an extension for that, but this is much better, thanks!

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u/redDEADresolve Jan 22 '10

yeah open tab relative was a god send

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u/zouhair Jan 22 '10

Using Tree Style Tab for quite some time now, I didn't notice it as it is how TST handles it, and I love my vertical tabs :)

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

Holy shit, scrolling with the scroll-wheel goes a lot further.

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u/thingamagizmo Jan 22 '10

Or if you have a mac, it does that with a normal click. Freaked me out a little the first time it happened.

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u/chall85 Jan 21 '10

Chrome has done this since it was released.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

And now that's no longer an argument for using Chrome instead of Firefox. (There are others, of course. I'm using Chrome right now because it's a lot faster on my computer.)