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Firefox 3.7 nightly adds built in option for tabs-on-top
Mozilla's been playing around with interface changes in Firefox 3.7 for a while -- there's the updated default theme and built-in glass support (which made a very brief appearance and has yet to return). In yesterday's nightly build, another UI option appeared: a simple right-click allows you to move your tabs to the top of the browser window.
If you've been looking for Opera or Chrome-like, this is a welcome change. More built-in customization options mean less hacking or fewer add-ons to install, after all.
If, however, you prefer your Firefox tabs right where they are, then please move along -- there's nothing to see here!
Want to take the nightly for a test drive? Download it from Mozilla!
I just wish the installer hadn't forced me to reboot. This is 2010, isn't it? I thought all the major browsers were able to install new versions without making me jump through hoops like that...
[via Tweaking with Vishal]
If you've been looking for Opera or Chrome-like, this is a welcome change. More built-in customization options mean less hacking or fewer add-ons to install, after all.
If, however, you prefer your Firefox tabs right where they are, then please move along -- there's nothing to see here!
Want to take the nightly for a test drive? Download it from Mozilla!
I just wish the installer hadn't forced me to reboot. This is 2010, isn't it? I thought all the major browsers were able to install new versions without making me jump through hoops like that...
[via Tweaking with Vishal]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAbhijeetApr 10th 2010 7:14PM
I loathe tabs on top. They get in the way of the Remote Desktop bar and the Winamp window shade mode. Tabs are best left where they are. This is one big reason I don't like Chrome.
KeegdnaBApr 10th 2010 7:49PM
Well that's why they're making it optional.
I didn't like them at first, but I've actually grown to appreciate the extra screen space (I never use toolbars...ever)
DafretyApr 10th 2010 7:58PM
I'm okay with tabs on the top, but this is not how you do it. They need to integrate them into the top of the window like Chrome. This is just wasted space.
SilverWaveApr 10th 2010 9:07PM
Once you use "Tree Style Tabs" on a wide screen monitor, tabs on top is just so 2008.
Hany HannaApr 10th 2010 9:52PM
Quite frankly, tabs belong on the left, not the top or bottom. If you haven't installed the treestyle tab for firefox you don't know what you're missin. I can't get myself to depend on Chrome, Iron or Opera because their tabs are stupidly at the top. Never liked them there. It just doesn't make sense. It would be like trying to use Win explorer with tabs and no tree.
Lee MathewsApr 10th 2010 9:53PM
I'll hit on this before the Opera fans descend on you...
Opera actually does tabs on the side quite nicely, especially in 10.5 -- what with the built-in preview thumbnails. They work well on a 16:9 display.
Hany HannaApr 10th 2010 10:18PM
I have portable Opera 10.51....can't see anyway to move tabs to the left
Lee MathewsApr 10th 2010 10:20PM
Right click tab bar, choose tab bar placement...pick left.
JoshApr 10th 2010 9:35PM
Now as soon as they do away with all the blue space at the very top, they will be rockin. I have mine all custom to take up very little space. And that damn top bar with the Firefox logo, the page your on, and then the minimize, close buttons takes up a lot of space. Netbook users might like firefox more once Firefox 4 comes out.
tracker1Apr 11th 2010 1:23AM
I like tabs on top more, but don't like how chrome replaced the window border into the tabs, I like the FF3.7 screenshot much better.
pristy.siteApr 11th 2010 1:56AM
Yes all browsers must look like Opera, this is good for FF and not so good for Opera. at lest FF will have bookmarks below the toolbar.
BuggerApr 11th 2010 4:48AM
Yet another Opera innovation make other web browsers become even better!
See what we can achieve without those draconian software-patents laws? It let someone make a great idea even better, for everyone else.
RichardApr 11th 2010 5:55AM
I hope they don't make this a standard in the future. I really hate how Chrome puts the tabs on top, for my desktop it looks so so wrong. It destroys the whole top down flow. Well thanks my thoughts anyway
laeroApr 11th 2010 8:01AM
Not a step backward if they do put them at the border of your screen. They are just following Fitts's law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law#Success_and_implications
AnthonyApr 11th 2010 12:31PM
I already have that with strat skin and looks much more neat and finished than this, but is cool to have natively into the browser tho :D all the way with the fox.
Jerome HApr 14th 2010 3:21PM
I love Chrome and its top tabs along OmniBar. I have no use for the file menus and I don't remember the last time I used them. Seriously, all the browsers using two box design for 'urls' and 'search' are still living in medieval times. And that's includes Firefox.
farshooterMay 26th 2010 6:37AM
Hi
I'm a recent convert to FF but some things are just more intuitive on Opera. Like Tabs - in Opera you can click on a tab and it minimises and goes to the previously selected tab. I've searched high and low but FF just can't do this (time-saving) trick.
also, Opera's automatic form filler is just brilliant - you start typing in a field in a form and it brings up suggestions from the master form (which you only need to fill in once) - FF's Fill Out Forms add-on requires multiple mouse clicks to fill just one field.
also, Opera's Wand lets you use Ctrl-Enter to fill in a password - FF leaves your password in open sight - you just click on the Continue button. Opera is way more secure in this regard. Anything like it on FF?
thanks for your help in advance
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