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tomos:
You can change where you want your tabs to open in your settings ( Tools = Options = Tabs ) Check it out.
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thanks Mizraim,
but,
if I want them to open in the background, they automatically open last tab to the right.

I do like in FF that if you close a tab it jumps to the neighbouring one,
as opposed to in Opera where it jumps to last used -
a pain in the ass if you're trying to systematically close tabs.

Of course Opera has (or should have*) the thing where if you click on current tab it will jump to last selected tab which is really helpful.

*I say should have cause the last couple of updates this works for a while (for me), then gives up, & thats with 2 fresh installs (one for Opera 9, a second seperate install cause Profiles dont work in Opera 9)

pros & cons ... :-\

tomos:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons show how to rule close button - so a value of 3 will be "(Firefox 1.x behavior)".

There are also some settings for width of tabs, before the hated scroll icons kicks in. I use Tab Control https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1480/ to get new tab next to current, covers a bit more.

No way around Tab Mix Plus if you want much more - http://tmp.garyr.net/ use Dev build for 2.0. See forum thread, very old stable dev-build. Be careful about Undo and session manager/crash control in TMP, 2.0 have own so disable one of the two. Session manager can still be used to manually save/restore.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/10/top_ten_addons.html sad I think. One of the best known Firefox employees come up with 5 extensions and 1 is a theme, another a search plugin! May be they really need some new blood at top levels ... Those who like extensions/tweaking shouldnt care for 1 second but majority dont use any or have the time/interest to fill gaps.
-dk70 (October 18, 2006, 12:53 PM)
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cheers, I'll have a look  :)

tomos:
There are also some settings for width of tabs, before the hated scroll icons kicks in. I use Tab Control https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1480/ to get new tab next to current, covers a bit more.

No way around Tab Mix Plus if you want much more - http://tmp.garyr.net/ use Dev build for 2.0. See forum thread, very old stable dev-build. Be careful about Undo and session manager/crash control in TMP, 2.0 have own so disable one of the two. Session manager can still be used to manually save/restore.
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TMPlus also gets new tab next to current, yeah, that makes FF much nicer !
A great range of options there  :up:

Unfortunately,
far as i can see, I loose this:
I do like in FF that if you close a tab it jumps to the neighbouring one
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but I'm keeping it  :)

dk70:
I doubt you dont have choice. Dont have it installed right now but if I remember correctly explore "Events" tab. "Tab closing" or something. Think I will install it again  8)

Black Mamba:
You mean this http://uk.play.yahoo.com/games/login?game=Pool Seems to work for me. Didnt first time because I missed the pop-up disable/enable warning. Think I got booted  8) You should see warning at top? Check Options, Content that you did not block Yahoo popups by mistake. -dk70 (October 17, 2006, 04:30 AM)
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You are right, it was the pop-up blocker.  :-[ I'm an Opera user, I'm used to manually allow pop-up windows with right click. Still, Firefox doesn't work as well as Opera with Java: the CPU often goes to 100% when small Java windows appear.

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