Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

[Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:22 -0500, Randall Wood wrote:
> - Perhaps the close button should be hidden when there is only a  
> single tab?

Just wanted to point out that Firefox puts the close button on the tab
itself because Mozilla did some usability testing and found that the
close-at-end-of-tab-bar button just confused people.  They'd be asked to
close the tab, look around a bit, glance at that button, dismiss it,
look some more...etc.

They've chosen to have "close" on a single tab close whatever file/site
happens to be open at the time but keep the application running.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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