Close tabs more quickly

Mary-Ellen
Mary-Ellen Member Posts: 479 ✭✭✭
edited December 2024 in English Forum

It would be nice if the "X" to close a tab appeared when hovering over the tab, like in IE, so that tabs could be closed as quickly as you can click, without having to wait for their contents to appear on the screen.

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  • fgh
    fgh Member Posts: 8,948 ✭✭✭

    If you use a mouse, any tab can be closed with a middle-click. No need to first make it active.

    Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2

  • George Somsel
    George Somsel Member Posts: 10,150 ✭✭✭


    It would be nice if the "X" to close a tab appeared when hovering over the tab, like in IE, so that tabs could be closed as quickly as you can click, without having to wait for their contents to appear on the screen.


    <ctrl-F4> and it's gone.  [Bye-bye]  [:)]

    BTW:  I'm still getting used to the new location of the "x" to close (which, as I explained, isn't necessary), but it should be considered an improvement in that it will cut down on the likelihood of closing the wrong panel. [Yes, I've done that]

    george
    gfsomsel

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭

    And actually 'displaying' the tab would be nice in order to either click it closed or as proposed 'hover' it closed.  Not wishing to disagree with the OP per se, but (as on my PC) hovering doesn't do a lot (touch-screen) nor of course for the matter the Cntrl-F4 approach, nor for that matter the middle mouse click.

    Interesting the interfaces.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Mary-Ellen
    Mary-Ellen Member Posts: 479 ✭✭✭

    fgh said:

    If you use a mouse, any tab can be closed with a middle-click. No need to first make it active.

    Hooray!  (How did you ever find out about this?)

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,276

    fgh said:

    If you use a mouse, any tab can be closed with a middle-click. No need to first make it active.

    Hooray!  (How did you ever find out about this?)

    It was flagged as an undocumented feature at http://community.logos.com/forums/p/26295/196062.aspx#196062[:)]

    I don't know who first found it!

     

     

     

     

  • Mary-Ellen
    Mary-Ellen Member Posts: 479 ✭✭✭

    A thread worth reading -- thanks once again, Graham!

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