Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi...
by Causality1 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:03PM
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Certainly isn't me. I'm still salty about Firefox 2 removing the "close current tab" button and putting an X on every tab instead. It was nice having that muscle memory instead of having to hunt down whichever tab you're currently focused on.
Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi...
by userbinator on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:39PM
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I've never used Firefox 1.x so haven't used that UI, but it sounds like something they could've made configurable but didn't want to, for whatever reason.
However, in all the tabbed browsers I've used, Ctrl+F4 closes the current tab.
Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi...
by pferde on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:22AM
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Ctrl+W also does that, and is much easier on the fingers (unless your hands are huge).
Re:Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extensi...
by jessaustin on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:29PM
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Surely there's an extension for that?
Personal anecdote, but of all the non-technical people I know (which I define as those who may barely know what a browser is, and only use the computer for browsing a tiny fraction of the Internet), none of them like the constant change, especially when it breaks their workflow, and those who do pay attention to version numbers think the rapid "version explosion" (to quote one) is completely silly. Like a lot of other things in life, they just put up with it because they're powerless.
I really wonder who the browser makers are targeting with the "move fast and break things constantly" attitude, because it's definitely neither the technical nor non-technical users I know.