Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

[Pascal Bonesh <firms@tiscali.ch>]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:54 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> khromy wrote:
> 
> > J.A. de Vries wrote:
> >
> >> On 2004-12-31 @ 10:16:43 (week 53) Kent West wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Galeon has an X on each tab; clicking on the X closes that tab. I 
> >>> really like this feature, but can't seem to figure out how to add it 
> >>> to Firefox. I had it added a few (pre-0.9) versions ago via an 
> >>> extension, but that extension no longer seems to be available.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know how to add the closing X to Firefox's tabs?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Install one of the extensions made especially for this. TabX and CTC
> >> are examples of extensions you might choose from.
> >>
> Except that neither of these extensions is available from the "Get More 
> Extensions" feature in Firefox. However, after your post, I googled for 
> these two extensions and found them at the "Extension Room" at MozDev 
> (http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/ctc), but when I click to 
> install them they both report that the file is not downloadable because 
> of "download error" (helpful, ain't it?). (TabX is what I used to use in 
> the pre 0.9 versions of FF.)
> 
> So it looks like no one has built an extension for this that works. 
> Still, I'm thinking that maybe there's some configuration tweak 
> ("about:config" or something similar) that might add the feature, 
> although a search for "tab" in "about:config" didn't turn up anything 
> promising.
> 
> Bummer.
> 
> > You can also just press CTRL+W if you want to close the current tab.
> 
> Thanks, yes; I use this quite a lot, but I'd still like to have the TabX 
> functionality.
> 
> 

Hi,

have you tried TabbrowserExtension? It does a whole lot more than just
add a close button and works in Firefox 1.0. 

While I am at it: try also NeedleSearch, StumbleUpon, Preferences
Toolbar, and MouseGestures... they are worthwile

Pascal