Who's on Firefox 4.0?

RayG said:
Nah, doesn't work. I get the same drop-down no matter where I right-click in the tab, and the only bookmark option is to bookmark ALL tabs.

I guess the feature I'm looking for was not ported over to this latest release. Bummers. I have sometimes a dozen or more tabs open at once and don't need or want to bookmark ALL of them, just the one I'm right-clicking on. I know it's only one extra step, but I liked having that option.

In fact, I used to right-click on a tab to open a new tab, now you have to click on that little folder with the gear on it to open a new tab. That gear/folder thingy is only about 1/6th or 1/7th the size of my tab, so I have to be much more accurate with my mouse clicks. Not a big deal to you young whippersnappers, but these tired old eyes get easily annoyed. :D

RayG
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I still don't know how to address your bookmark problem. That might just be something you have to live with, although there's an awful lot of good add-ons out there and one might do just what you want.

Tab Mix Plus will solve your problem about the new tab issue, and much more. I especially like the ability to control whether the new tab opens beside the current one or at the end of the tab line. It also lets you turn each tab's "X" off and on to protect from inadvertent deleting, or even lock it so that new pages from that tab are always forced into new tabs. Other settings also control when pages open in the current or a new tab with a lot more control than FF4 offers.. Many other bells and whistles. Seems to behave itself well, too. At least so far.

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Update for Bionic Hips.

Session Manager seems to do a really good job of handling the tab group issue. It goes beyond the session management and recovery included in Tab Mix Plus, even to the point of allowing named sessions which you can use to preset different arrangements of tab groups, selecting which one you prefer at each start up.

Behaving itself so far (I just installed it yesterday, after your post got me looking for other options), and the review feedback seems pretty positive. I think it may be a keeper.
 
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quadraginta said:
Tab Mix Plus will solve your problem about the new tab issue, and much more.
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Initially I was highly dismayed to see that this changed the text on the tabs to red italics. When I twigged that this was because I hadn't viewed the reopened tabs yet I began to warm to it. After playing with it for a few days I'd now recommend giving this add-on a go, it's pretty good.
 
richardm said:
Initially I was highly dismayed to see that this changed the text on the tabs to red italics. When I twigged that this was because I hadn't viewed the reopened tabs yet I began to warm to it. After playing with it for a few days I'd now recommend giving this add-on a go, it's pretty good.
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I've been VERY pleased.

I didn't like the red, either. I did like the reason it was there. I changed it to blue. The color is selectable in the options menus. You can even make it stop doing that at all if you want.

I like the increased options for what tabs open where and how. Perhaps most.

Forcing new tabs for links that direct to a different page has been great. It means that when I do a Google search I don't start shoving the results page back down a list of old pages. It's always there to go back to.

Setting my search window to automatically open in a new tab keeps me from accidentally replacing the tab I'm in when I idly decide to look something up.

I have learned to like being able to "protect" and/or "lock" individual tabs.

I like the "closed tab history". I wish I could figure out how to up the size of the list from ten items.

I also have the Session Manager add-on I mentioned before, which melds well with TMP, so some of the TMP features in that area are superseded, and I can't really comment on how it handles those.

I recommend Session Manager as well.
 
quadraginta said:
Forcing new tabs for links that direct to a different page has been great. It means that when I do a Google search I don't start shoving the results page back down a list of old pages. It's always there to go back to.

Setting my search window to automatically open in a new tab keeps me from accidentally replacing the tab I'm in when I idly decide to look something up.
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You can also set that behavior as default through Google preferences.
 
quadraginta said:
I like the "closed tab history". I wish I could figure out how to up the size of the list from ten items.
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Well, it seems that there is an option for everything buried in there, and this is no exception :D

So - Tab Mix Plus options-> Events -> Tab Features ->change "max number of closed tabs to remember".
 
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