Comments on: You Really Want to Completely Disable Tabs in Firefox?

By: Hate Tabs

Hate Tabs — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:27:27 +0000

I absolutely hate tabs, the only reason I am still using Internet Explorer 6.5 is bacause 7.0 and 8.0 have tabs and does not let you but the link bar below the address bar or use large icons with text on bottom.

The most anoying aspect of tab browsing is when you want to exit something and your whole browser closes with all the windows you did not want to close.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:51:20 +0000

“This is probably useful if you are trying to convert somebody that is used to IE6 and doesn’t understand the concept of tabs.”

I loathe this attitude. I also loathe tabs. I don’t want them. I don’t like them but that doesn’t mean that I don’t understand them. Tabs a the most annoying feature of current browsers and any browser that doesn’t give you the option of disabling them is not worth installing. Any browser that require a download in order to disable this annoying feature would have to be astonishingly good in all other areas to be worth installing.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:35:49 +0000

Interesting discussion. My 2 cents. I need to disable all tabs (and bookmarks history etc etc) for students here at the school I work at. Can do a degree of lockdown with forced profiles (ie start FF with a different profile) but I really really need to be able to turn off all aspects of tabs, preferably without addons. I suspect there is something in about:config, but nothing obvious. Ideas?

By: KP

KP — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:22 +0000

Tabs duplicates what the taskbar does. It’s a waste of time and work space. I want a page per window,-see the little boxes at the top right? -all you need. Why have a confusing mix. I don’t need 14 toolbars or 14 search lines and double access to everything. All that stuff up there could go on very few lines. Leave my workspace as big as possible. Please let me get rid of what i don’t use.

By: Heriska

Heriska — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:31:32 +0000

I think tabs is the one of the best thing that firefox ever created. It can be an extremely powerful tool with 1 firefox extension – tab mix plus options. Here are a few things that you can do with tabs that I find very useful:

- You can undo a closed tab (the most important thing in my opinion). The tab will still retain all the pages that you visited on the tab so you can still go back via the back button (or Alt+Left Arrow for shortcuts)
- You can set to memorize as many closed tabs as you want in case you want to reopen some of the sites or just to remind you what sites you visited before (of course you can look always look in your history).
- You can make the tabs unclosable and/or unchangable
- You can have a tab reload every x secs/mins/etc
- You can open up different links/bookmarks in a new tab and not have to focus on the window right away. i.e. you can open different sites but still be looking on the same page you are on without switching back (not sure if anyone understands what I mean cause it sounds like a very bad explaination)
- You can save the tabs you open when you close firefox. So when you re-open firefox the sites that you saved are opened. It’s like having multiple home pages (as long as you don’t close those tabs)

These are things that I used often for easier browsing. You can definitely do a lot more customizations to the tabs via this and/or other extensions. In case some ppl don’t know, just like Alt+Tab and Alt+F4 to switch and close windows you can use CTRL+Tab and CTRL+F4 (or W) to switch and close tabs. You can also set CTRL+Tab to show a list of tabs instead of just switching right away. So you can still browse quickly. IMO opening new windows is slower than opening new tab because it involves starting another program while opening a new tab does not require opening another program. I hope this motivates some people to start or go back to using tabs again.

By: Wade

Wade — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:04:48 +0000

I am a really fast typist and, as such, I rely on the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts for a lot of actions, especially switching between screens into which I have to enter data while at work. So, for me, tabbed browsing slows me down tremendously, as I can’t Alt+Tab to switch between them. Just so you have some insight

By: bob rice

bob rice — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:01:49 +0000

it is not for you or anyone else to understand my preference to not use tabs. you would probably disapprove of my use of xp without sp3 and my six year old version of a newsreader. i like what i like and dont make apologies to anyone for my preferences. you probably wouldnt like my brand of coffee or the style of my 15 year old car, but they all suit me just fine.

By: phlud

phlud — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:42:37 +0000

I like tabs most of the time; I just hate it whenever firefox updates its plugins, each plugin insists on opening its plugin homepage – granted not all plugins do this, but I have a few that do, when its happened that all 5 or more of these plugins updated at once, i’ll have 5 tabs opening up and rendering pages when all I want to do is get to MY homepage. This pisses me of and it’s a waste of time. I hate to kill all tabs because of one major annoyance (to me).

By: JH

JH — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:18:28 +0000

Trouble is I like to open every link I click in a separate something, in case it turns out not to be what I want. Then I can simply press Ctrl+W instead of having to wait for the page to reload. Multiple pages open mean one just gets ‘99 Firefox’ or whatever in the taskbar, which isn’t helpful, so here tabs offers a good solution.

By: Obinna

Obinna — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:37:07 +0000

how do i disable firefox safe mode option when someone wants to open firefox browser.

I run a public cafe and some people use it to disable some important programs that restricts them from visiting some sites that are not good for general views. thanks