Unless you were working in a User Interface laboratory at the time, I doubt that you were using a taskbar in 1992. Windows 95 was the first mass-market product to use it.
But I agree with your basic point that tabs are functionally the same as taskbar buttons. People miss the point about tabbed browsing, though, even the evangelists. It’s not actually about the tabs. It’s about being able to load other pages in the background, with a single click, while you continue to read the current page. Tabbed browsers introduced this innovation, and it has wrongly been associated with the tabs ever since. Current versions of the popular browsers do allow you to background-load pages in new windows, no tabs required.
When the config screen opens, scroll down to browser.tabs.tabMinWidth.
Double-click on the entry, and when the dialog box pops up, change the number to a very small number, e.g. 1. This sets the minimum tab width to 1 pixel, meaning they will shrink to fit in your window rather than overflowing.
I still haven’t switched yet. My main concern is the looks and interface. I’ve gotten used to Firefox 1.5 on a Mac and I wonder how 2 compares. Also, FF is good with RAM but it tends to use up 50% of my G4’s processing power. I was wondering whether te new one is better or worse in that regard.
Nah. I’ve been on the computer since 92. He’s right, taskbar only since Win95. Usram or Mhendo, is there a listing somewhere for all those about:config entries? What each does, and options?
I just downloaded 2.0 this afternoon. There is an option to open in new window instead of tabs. I clicked it but it still didn’t work. I did the about:config thing.
Scroll down, double-click browser.link.open_newwindow , put a “2” in instead of the “3” that was there. No more nasty tabs.
I kept closing the wrong tab, or closing a tab in error. But I also found History - Recently Closed Tabs, which was helpful, especially when you could reopen the tab and keep the “back” history. (I.e. go back to search results on “new posts” instead of having to rerun the new posts search.)
My wife’s computer asked about the upgrade and I told her I had no idea if she should or not, since I haven’t done it yet. She asked me about what I’d heard, and I said nothing. Apparently, I lied.
I’ve had the upgrade and completely forgotten about it. No problems whatsoever with my computer. I have an HP laptop with Vista: Firefox and Thunderbird are working wonderfully, and I didn’t have to do much of anything. Who knew?
I can’t see anything here that looks like a taskbar. That thing in the corner I think is called the Launcher, and would appear to be more like Windows’ QuickLaunch buttons.
I do loves me some cheat codes and such.