Firefox 2.0 available

Firefox 2.0 available

Posted Oct 25, 2006 22:05 UTC (Wed) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Firefox 2.0 available by ajross
Parent article: Firefox 2.0 available

It all depends if I'm currently holding the mouse/trackball or not. If I have my hands on the keyboard then the problem does not exist (actually, then a completely different problem exists: that it's impossible to know which part of the web browser has focus, but that's a whole different story and shows Firefox is really designed to navigate with the mouse).

Having the close buttons on the tabs has other usability issues. It is very easy to close a tab my mistake instead of selecting it, especially when you have many tabs open. It's also not very good that the buttons move as the tabs change their width. I guess they had a reason why they changed to having a fixed button position before.

I'm not against change in itself, but changing and then changing back seems a bit unmotivated.

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