Neat Firefox 5 feature

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My favourite Firefox 5 feature so far: the handling of tab resizing when you're closing tabs. It doesn't resize the remaining tabs until you move the mouse out of the tab bar - so if you're just closing a bunch of tabs sequentially, the X doesn't move out from under your cursor when the tabs resize, unless you signal that you're done by moving the mouse away. Awesome!

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dave.given wrote on 2011-06-27 23:18:
Yep I love firefox too, but I think this feature was in Firefox 4 already, so it isn't new to FF5. Can't wait for FF10... double figures! Dizzy heights :-) But things will start getting ridiculous somewhere around FF20, where the numbers start to lose their meaning. Though I suppose that is probably what Mozilla wants, as opposed to everyone flaming over Firefox 5 not having enough features to warrant a shiny new number.
adamw wrote on 2011-06-27 23:20:
I don't recall it being in FF4, but I may be wrong...it felt new to me, for sure.
dave.given wrote on 2011-06-27 23:27:
I'm pretty sure it was in FF4. Anyway, keep up the blogging and all the great work you do in Fedora and open source :-)
robyn wrote on 2011-06-28 00:54:
This is one of my pet peeves in Thunderbird. :)
david wrote on 2011-06-28 04:34:
This is actually originally a Chrome feature from way back. Good to know it's made it to Firefox as well.
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