Do you ever find yourself surfing the net with several tabs open and suddenly experiencing an overwhelming urge to un-clutter your browser?
I certainly do. The most frustrating part about it all is that one is forced to select some tab, right-click, and then select 'Close Other Tabs'.
The Default keyboard shortcuts in the en-US version of Firefox are somewhat backward in my opinion. Practically every window manager has its own 'Close Window' shortcut key. In Windows it's Alt+F4, like it is in Gnome.
So why does Firefox need to duplicate a function that the window manager most certainly has? Firefox has its own built-in 'Close Window' shortcut which is 'Ctrl+Shift+w'. This key combination would be much better suited for 'Close Other Tabs'.
I hope that they at least make a Preferences section in Firefox 3.0 so that people can customize the shortcut keys.
4 comments:
I would like this functionality also!
"Close Other Tabs" should be a feature enhancement.
If someone knows a shortcut or a plugin, please drop me a message. :)
-Tres
It would also be nice to have a "Move Tab Left/Right" shortcut key.
For example, with Gnome-Terminal, using Ctrl+Shift+PgUp will shift left and Ctrl+Shift+PgDn will shift right.
It's really features like these that attract users to any applications and I'm surprised that it's not already in FireFox.
Chris, are you referring to "Ctrl + Tab" ?
-Tres
That's good for cycling through tabs, but I was talking about actually moving the tabs. Say if I had the 3rd tab from the left open, and I wanted to move it to position 1, then I should be able to use some key combination, such as Ctrl+Shift+PgUp to move it to the left 1 position.
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