Love it, or hate it – Firefox got one more addition to it’s browser that seems to have gotten a mixed reaction from the fans. The open new tab button rests at the end of your tab bar in Firefox 3.5 giving you an easier user interface to open a new tab.
Clicking on the little “+” icon at the end of your open tabs, opens a new tab. Seems simple enough, and I do like the fact that it gives one more clean way for new users to instantly figure it out.
How do I remove the new tab button? Well, if you are handy with editing your userChrome.css file – this should be an easy customization to put in place. Just add this line:
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none;}
To edit your userChrome.css file, you must first locate it inside of your profile folder. Depending on your operating system of choice, that location might differ. Check out "where is my Firefox profile folder?” for more information.
So how do you feel, love the new icon or is it in your way?
It’s to much like IE. I find it useless because you can just double click the tab bar.
I had no idea you could open a new tab just by double-clicking the tab bar! Thanks for the tip. :) I like the new tab button – it was one of the features that I missed from using IE.
I agree!
I agree this was something I immediately missed from IE–also did not know you could open a new tab by double-clicking.
yup agree with double click and also it looks little bit like other open tab in some themes
It sucks!!
how to compete with IE? be like them.. lol
FF is FF, IE is …. (put by urself)
Takes up far to much room. It’s been gone on my system ever since it appeared. I just love userChrome :)
that little botton disappeared. was there last nite- now it’s not.
Can’t figure what it is used for. Why does anyone need a black page opened?
You meant ‘blank’
IT’S not like it get’s in the way of anything. people on the internet alway’s have to whine about something. Even if it makes no sense at all.
I found out why it disappeared- the theme I installed wiped it out.
Long overdue (I never have empty space to double-click on my tab bar) but it should be on the left end of the bar like in Konqueror. (Open button on the left end, close on the right)
I’ll experiment with that when my webdev profile’s extensions stop breaking FX 3.5’s DNS resolution.
Double-click on the tab bar, providing available space, quite true. I know there is a ‘Stylish’ style that does that, forgot which one.
That is a great fix to unclutter the FF3.5 UI. I use the keyboard a lot, so that button was just taking up screen real estate. I googled and googled to find that one and more to make the FF3.5 UI simple and efficient again. It’s time I do learn to do it myself using the DOM Inspector. I’d love to see a tutorial on FF3.5 using DOM or FireBug to find the ids and classes to modify FF. Perhaps a topic for a future entry here? Thank you.
I use the tiny menu, more tools, and all-in-one sidebar addons. I’m happy they are compatible. Unfortunately my bookmark addons (I upgaded form 2.18) aren’t compatible, like locate in bookmark folder, link checker, duplicate check (with real-time checking), etc. :-(
Tks.
I’ve disabled it:
.tabs-newtab-button { display: none !important; }
I don’t know, bothers me. I seldom call for a new tab anyway.
The annoying purple tab bar makes me sorry I
ever downloaded 3.5.
Very useful information, Thank you!
Folder location on Windows 7:
%appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/ftz0ce5v.default/chrome
Note that ‘ftz0ce5v’ is randomly generated by Firefox so you will see something slightly different.
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