Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by Slippery_John on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:15PM (#9046908)

Tabs were one of the major reasons I switched over to Chrome. At the time, firefox resized the tabs as soon as space became available, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain. They don't do that anymore, but now they have the tab scrolling feature which adds a gui element if there are too many tabs. Thing is, once you close enough tabs, those elements go away immediately, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain.

Biggest reason I switched, which is still the true (though less so), is that Chrome takes up less screen real estate.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by soperj on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:48PM (#9047096)

Ctrl-w kills a tab. Makes that kind of thing completely painless.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by kevinbowman on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:07PM (#9047194)

As does middle-click, which is super-handy.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by ntsh on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:18PM (#9047254)

Sometimes Ctrl+w can lead to horrible pain if you accidentally hit Q which is just next to w.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by dergachev on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:42PM (#9047410)

Chrome has a menu item toggle called "Warn before quitting" that I just enabled, and it has already saved me a bunch of times!!!! In OSX it's under the Chrome menu item (before File), don't know where they stuck it in Windows.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by wutbrodo on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:10PM (#9047803)

I can't seem to find this in my settings : (. This bit me every once in a while, and as I keep hundreds of tabs open, it's a huge pain in the ass to restore Chrome. I ended up remapping the ctrl+q shortcut to do nothing.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by Cthulhu_ on Friday February 13, 2015 @05:08PM (#9047546)

I don't think Windows has it, also because the keyboard command to exit an application is alt+f4, which isn't easy to hit on accident.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by kalleboo on Friday February 13, 2015 @11:51PM (#9048801)

On Mac OS X at least, you can just remap Command-Q to something that's harder to press by mistake in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by kasabali on Saturday February 14, 2015 @09:46AM (#9049743)

This is pretty horrible but fortunately easy to fix. I use an extension called disable ctrl q or similar.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by Luyt on Saturday February 14, 2015 @03:17AM (#9049105)

Restart Firefox, then choose History/Restore previous session.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by dzhiurgis on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:32PM (#9047886)

BetterTouchTool: map 4 finger swipe up to cmd+w.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by liyuanli on Friday February 13, 2015 @05:15PM (#9047578)

I switched to Chrome a few years ago for the same reason. Another reason was Chrome had an 'omnibar' that takes in both urls and search queries. I was instantly sold on that.

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Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox by scholia on Friday February 13, 2015 @07:45PM (#9048183)

Browser world has change a lot in the past two years.....

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