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I just want to be able to scroll through open tabs. I don't know why they'd disable this when even chrome has it.
So, in Firefox, if you open enough tabs, it will eventually overflow them and then you can scroll the tab list either with those little scroll buttons to the left and right or with the scrollwheel.
The main thing I miss is "It's All Text!", which the creator / maintainer indicated was impossible to port away from Legacy, in no small part due to the security aspects of it. I really, truly, hate inputting anything more than a couple of lines in to websites. Worse when you're fighting WYSIWYG editors, fixed box widths. Even worse than that is when you spend 20 minutes filling in the box, hit submit and find your s…
I was skeptical, but one month in, I have to admit the speed and stability gains are worth the lost addons. Fortunately for me, I only had to give up very small conveniences. I did lose a few hours over XMarks' inability to sync Firefox search keywords correctly anymore (it's not solved, but you can input the keywords yourself on all your machines and they won't be erased) but that's it.
Firefox 1.0 arguably had better UI, or at least the option to make it better.
Also, I remember running it on a 32MB machine. Today, with only this single HN tab open, memory consumption is reported at somewhere above half a gigabyte.
I was skeptical, but one month in, I have to admit the speed and stability gains are worth the lost addons. Fortunately for me, I only had to give up very small conveniences. I did lose a few hours over XMarks' inability to sync Firefox search keywords correctly anymore (it's not solved, but you can input the keywords yourself on all your machines and they won't be erased) but that's it.
I was skeptical, and one month in, I still sort of hate it, but there isn't really anywhere else to go. Firefox 1.0 arguably had better UI, or at least the option to make it better. Also, I remember running it on a 32MB machine. Today, with only this single HN tab open, memory consumption is reported at somewhere above half a gigabyte.
On the other hand, I will trade memory use for many things. One thing that is infuriating to me is that despite the memory hog, a single tab can still crash the whole browser. All the memory use doesn't even buy you failure isolation.
I just want to be able to scroll through open tabs. I don't know why they'd disable this when even chrome has it.
It interferes with the tab overflow scrolling, which Chrome doesn't have. So, in Firefox, if you open enough tabs, it will eventually overflow them and then you can scroll the tab list either with those little scroll buttons to the left and right or with the scrollwheel.