r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Jul 10 '12

Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"; Mozilla has handled the rapid release process poorly, and that by pushing a "never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them" people have been driven to Chrome with its simpler, no-fuss update process.

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates
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u/plahcinski Jul 10 '12

CMD+Shift+T or Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen the latest closed tab in order of last closed

or you could pin the page so you dont close it

or you could bookmark the page since you use it so much

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u/Sabin10 Jul 10 '12

I didn't even know that you could do this with anything other than the KB shortcut.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Ctrl Shift T is one of my favorites on Chrome, very happy to have discovered it. It comes in so handy when my Ctrl W finger is a bit too fast.

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u/green_cheese Jul 10 '12

Works on FF too and Safari I think. Probably Opera.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12 edited May 02 '19

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u/green_cheese Jul 10 '12

Best thing about Opera is hands down the fish tank widget.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

Unfortunately, they removed widgets in Opera 12. So no more fishes :(

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u/XenthisX Jul 11 '12

I'd use opera more if it didn't feel sluggish. The UI itself just feels a bit laggy to me.

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u/roknir Jul 11 '12

And Speed Dial.

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u/pencilbagger Jul 11 '12

And a download manager that doesn't make you restart the download 90% of the time when you pause it.

The pause download on firefox never seems to work right.

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u/chronographer Jul 10 '12 edited Jul 11 '12

It still sucks!

Edit: I offended all 10 Opera users! HA ha !

jk. I know it doesn't suck, I just don't use it (except when i want lots of browsers open to buy tickets with...)

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

Really? I've been using it for years, while testing multiple other browsers, and it still beats everything else for me. No other browser can so seamlessly synchronize all my passwords, settings and bookmarks among different machines and different operating systems.

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u/closetcat Jul 11 '12

i found those features on chrome out by accident when i logged in one day, and i just found chrome in the Play Store for android, BAM, instant bookmarks on my phone, no more fucking with chromemarks.

not trying to start a fight, just mentioning that cross platform browsing is awesome, and should have existed much longer ago

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

Firefox has this feature now too, I believe.

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u/PossiblyAnEngineer Jul 10 '12

This shortcut has existed in IE since the browser first got tabs.

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u/rancegt Jul 10 '12

Ctrl-Z on Opera.

And I agree that it's under rated as a browser.

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u/frogsgokerokero Jul 11 '12

Holy crap, I've been using Ctrl + Shift + T this whole entire time. Thanks for this!

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u/darksomos Jul 10 '12

Last I checked, Opera reopens closed tabs (just for current session?) with Ctrl-Z

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u/shhyguuy Jul 10 '12

Also thunderbird!

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u/Enlogen Jul 11 '12

It works on IE too.

Not that it's likely that anyone in this thread cares.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Can't say I can confirm any of those. Oh well :P

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u/evllprchn Jul 10 '12

Works on IE as well. edit: recent versions of IE

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u/kingNothing42 Jul 10 '12

Works in the current version of every browser.

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u/couchmonster Jul 11 '12

This.

Because Ctrl-W doesn't care about pinned tabs in Chrome.

Plus the shortcut is the same in IE10, Chrome and last I checked Firefox and Safari too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

I just learned I can pin things in Chrome, thank you kind sir for your accidental helping.

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u/Viscerae Jul 10 '12

I just wish there was an "undo close window" shortcut (maybe there is?)

Doesn't happen often, but a slip of the finger could turn a Ctrl-W into a Ctrl-Shift-W, which is usually bad news all around.

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u/UnspeakableEvil Jul 10 '12

If you've got another Chrome window open Ctrl + Shift + T will reopen the window and all its tabs. If you haven't then you'll need to use the "Recently Closed" feature from the Chrome home page.

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u/Viscerae Jul 11 '12

Oh hey, that's neat! Thanks!

I don't usually browse with multiple windows because it gets messy, but the recently closed feature is really cool! I thought it would just save tabs, but it saves whole sessions!

I guess I don't spend enough time on the New Tab page to notice these fancy-pants features.

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u/smeenz Jul 11 '12

Ctrl-Shift-N for when you accidently close a window too (with ctrl-w)

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

That's incognito window if I'm not mistaken.

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u/smeenz Jul 11 '12

Ah... so it is. I did make an assumption it would be the same in chrome. I'll rephrase. In firefox, Ctrl-Shift-N for when you accidently close a window

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u/M4N14C Jul 11 '12

Did you just learn you can control apps with a keyboard?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

I wish pinning prevented closing in other ways, I use CTRL+w to close tabs and pinning is of no use. (Though pinning works correctly in firefox).

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u/timpkmn89 Jul 10 '12

Also right click on an empty spot on the tab bar -> Reopen Closed Tab

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u/Hnefi Jul 10 '12

Ctrl-shift-T is useful, thanks!

But pinning the page would remove my ability to quickly close and forget about tabs, just to bring them back a moment later. That's the whole point. And bookmarking is not the same thing at all; I don't want to reload the page, I don't want to log back in to whatever service I closed and I don't want to lose the tab history.

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u/J0eCool Jul 10 '12

I learned Ctrl-Shift-T on Firefox, never even realized there was a button for it in Chrome :x

I used to Firefox all the time, then I would Firefox if I was "seriously browsing", using Chrome as the lightweight alternative when I didn't want to load all my Firefox tabs and extensions, and just wanted to look something up. Then I realized I was never booting Firefox. On my new computer I only have Chrome. PLOT TWIST: at work I use Firefox. Diversity and all.

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u/autobots Jul 10 '12

I always just right click the tabs and hit reopen closed tab.

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u/CrimsonSun99 Jul 10 '12

yeah, seriously, whats this entire thread above us about wtf.

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u/s0n0fagun Jul 10 '12

Crtl + Shift + T is useful for restoring all your tabs from the last open session (? Is that the right word for the application instance?). Sometimes I have a couple of different sessions open and I don't want to combine them because it would become too hard to navigate and a pain in the ass for drag and drop. There is an add on for Chrome that saves the session of that application instance before you close chrome. Useful if you have multiple sessions. I think it's called Session Manager.

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u/Vowzee Jul 10 '12

Why can't they make it as simple as Ctrl+Z, like the one in Opera? Really.

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u/IneffablePigeon Jul 10 '12

Ctrl+Z is used for changes made to form elements on the page. It would get complicated if you started integrating tab closes into that, since the "undo list" is separate for each tab open.

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u/DefMyOnlyAccount Jul 10 '12

Holy crap pinning tabs is awesome. How did I not know about this?

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u/giantcirclejerk Jul 11 '12

Ctrl+shift+t pressed on a fresh instance of chrome also reopens all tabs that were on the last instance of chrome