Firefox 2 Beta 2

The Firefox development team released Firefox 2 Beta 2 today. I have a couple visual gripes in version 2, like the inability to easily remove red "X" on tabs through an options menu item, and the addition of a green "go" arrow to the right of the address bar. I know, picky picky.

I'll have to fully try it out later, this latest release is too beta for me. In the mean time I'll be sticking with version 1.5.0.6. If you've been using it, let me know what you think of it.

edit: 11/06

To remove the green "go arrow", go to about:config, and look for:

browser.urlbar.hideGoButton

and set it to True

To remove the red x from individual tabs, and place it on the right hand side, look for:

browser.tabs.closeButtons

and set it to 3

Check out http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons for more info on other options

To remove the "List all tabs" button, add this to userChrome.css:

/* Remove List Tabs button */ .tabs-alltabs-stack, .tabs-alltabs-box, .tabs-alltabs-box-animate, .tabs-alltabs-button { display: none !important; }

Posted by Marcin on Friday, September 1, 2006 in Tech.