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Google & Firefox think Opera got it right after all :)

Sunday, 6. November 2005, 02:20:06

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Firefox user interface developer Ben Goodger, payed by Google, tells about usability tests they have been doing. Conclusions: a close button that is not on the tab is hardly noticed, and returning to the originating page after closing a tab is often expected behavior.

The title of this posting is a bit cheeky, after all Opera is not the only browser that opted for close buttons on tabs. Safari and Epiphany preceded us. :smile:

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scipio 6. November 2005, 09:26

I like his reply to the comment pointing out that Opera already is like that:

(...) LOL. I just tested Opera 8.02 and you're right. And we thought we were so clever for coming up with this heuristic. -_-;

He really didn't know... :rolleyes: p:

dan1el 6. November 2005, 12:20

Nice!

Rijk 6. November 2005, 18:26

I predict that, if this change goes into 1.5 (which might not be the case BTW), it will be as popular as Opera 9's Ctrl+N/Ctrl+T switch.

We get enough users that come from Firefox to Opera asking if tab-closing-order can be done the Firefox way, I think both ...

saito 7. November 2005, 09:59

Next, they will have 'Alt+Z' and 'Alt+X' soon :wink: Or trash can beside URL bar, instead of 'x' :hat:

'Inspired' is useful expression for such a kind of people :frown:

arkeo 12. November 2005, 17:04

In Konqueror is the option to show close button on a tab. :smile:

Anonymous 30. November 2005, 09:40

cr0ft writes:

Personally that's the first thing I hunt down in the settings windows after a new install - disable the close button on all page tabs. Just wastes space on my screen when I have tons of pages (not tabs darn it...) :)

Rijk 30. November 2005, 10:57

Research shows ... You are not a newbie :smile:

dalu 5. December 2005, 07:31

close button: ugly
close with middle mouse key: nice :cheers:

returning to the originating page: I don't like it. Usually when reading forum posts i tend to keep a lot of tabs open, wich makes going back to the original list "on close" a little awkward: i just selected the topics to read, no need to return to the homepage BEFORE reading them all...

Anonymous 10. December 2005, 03:03

Anonymous writes:

if you use niftywindows, the middlebutton is useless.
option to turn on close buttons on tabs is heavily recommended!
cheers

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