ieremiou wrote:Not that I know of... I don't know what would be needed to be done to make such a thing happen. I've never seen an extension like that.. I don't think TBE has that but then I haven't used it in a while.
It does -- TBE allows you to specify top, bottom, left, right, or "hide always" for location of Tab bar. I'm fine w/it on the top, so I've never played with these settings.
It also provides scroll functionality for too many tabs.
Okay, quite a few state how TBE is crap and full of bugs. While I don't think it's that bad, I thought I'd post what i would need to move off of it.
The functions I use TBE for (that are currently NOT supported by extensions known by me):
- Scroll Bar in Tab-bar (no other extension. Scroll tabs have buttons to scroll, but I need a scroll bar)
- Bookmark-name tab labeling. Instead of using a page's title, it uses the bookmark name (when opened via bookmarks, of course)
- With the above function, the tab width would have to match the width of the bookmark name. This functions not vital (since there is a max-width I could use).
- Tab Locking. This is a big one. I use lock tabs for all my forum uses, so that I can click any topic and it loads in a new tab.
That's all that's left. If these can be done, I'll give all the other extensions a shot.
It crashed for me mostly when i open external links. This is gone since i don't use TBE anymore.
Maybe it is dependent on the settings you use. Yours may be safe.
Has anyone made a summary list of all the various substitutions and their functionality? Right now I'm looking for the ability to open all bookmark links into new tabs (and also all links that are to a different domain - links that go off site).
(I already got mini-T so I can drag and drop tabs, and Session Saver - for obvious reasons.)
Greetings. Glad to see this topic still alive since I stumbled onto the original some time back. I registered to find out if there a way to get the most important TBE behavior I've come to rely on with early versions of FireSomething, which I use on Win2K.
I had TBE set up so I could double-click on a tab to reload it. I typically have a number of tabs with forums and other pages that are frequently updated. So, it's natural to switch to a tab for a page that needs to be updated. It's faster and more natural to combine the initial tab selection click with a second click to cause refresh, than to either move the mouse to the refresh button, or to hit f5.
It seems this behavior doesn't get any respect... at least judging by the small, specialty Tab extensions I've seen. Any pointers (or zealous extension writing) would be appreciated.
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