I didn't even notice that that was there. (Which I suppose is a UI design problem in itself.) Having seen it, it's not at all obvious that it closes the front tab.
There are still lots of little UI infelicities in Firefox's dialogs; the bookmark manager feels more awkward to manipulate than Safari's, in ways that would probably take lengthy studies for me to articulate precisely. But the basic browsing experience is pretty good.
In some ways purity comes into conflict with ease of use. I personally prefer Firefox's slightly more complicated font settings to Safari's, but that is mostly because I am an old CSS geek and recognize that Firefox's settings map directly to the concept of CSS generic font families, so it's obvious to me how they are supposed to work. Any normal person would probably be baffled by the existence of separate serif and sans-serif font settings.
As a fellow CSS geek, I know what you mean. In fact it seems like the only way to arrange them, and the older ways seem completely wrong and unhelpful.
...Also, that arrangement for the close-tab widget means that you can't use it to close background tabs, something that I end up doing a lot for some reason.
Yes -- many situations incur this behavior. For example, sometimes I realize I accidentally have the same document open in two or three tabs, so I close the other two while I'm reading the front one. In this situation, with an average of eight tabs open, it's nice to reduce the clutter a little bit.
Other times, one of the backgrounds tabs will have been spinning for a while, unable to load a page, and I don't want the annoying show-stopping 'url can't be loaded' pop-up to appear, so I close that background tab right before it happens.
That's their Windoze bias rearing its ugly head again. Apparently that positioning of a tab-closure is common under various Win OSes. Whereas Safari and Camino do it in a more "Mac-like" (intuitive) way.
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Date: 2005-02-26 04:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-26 04:32 am (UTC)Thanks for pointing it out.
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Date: 2005-02-26 04:42 am (UTC)In some ways purity comes into conflict with ease of use. I personally prefer Firefox's slightly more complicated font settings to Safari's, but that is mostly because I am an old CSS geek and recognize that Firefox's settings map directly to the concept of CSS generic font families, so it's obvious to me how they are supposed to work. Any normal person would probably be baffled by the existence of separate serif and sans-serif font settings.
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Date: 2005-02-26 06:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-26 04:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-26 07:01 am (UTC)Other times, one of the backgrounds tabs will have been spinning for a while, unable to load a page, and I don't want the annoying show-stopping 'url can't be loaded' pop-up to appear, so I close that background tab right before it happens.
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Date: 2005-02-26 06:52 am (UTC)