Change Firefox close button behavior

Today, I’m going to show you how to change the placement of the close buttons in Firefox 2.0. If you’re like me, you have been waiting to upgrade your Firefox. I’m still running 1.5 (latest build). I decided to install 2.0 onto my other HDD so I could test it out. I do like it allot and I will probably continue to use it more and more as time goes on.

One of the things I don’t like too much, is the fact that the close buttons are on the tabs themselves. It’s a nice feature, but, I’m used to the old version. I like clicking at the end of the tab bar to close my tabs. I’m going to be showing you how to change the behavior of the close buttons. You’ll be able to move them and modify them to a different location.

First thing you want to do is, type about:config into the address bar.

Find and change browser.tabs.closeButtons to the value you wish to use. Below are the numerical values and what they represent.

0 – Displays the close button only on the active tab.
1 – Displays the close buttons on every tab. (default)
2 – Never displays the close buttons.
3 – Displays the single close button at the end of the tab strip (This is the old, default Firefox 1.5 behavior)

The way I want the tab bar to be, is like 1.5 so I would choose number 3. You can choose what you would like to do. Double click browser.tabs.closeButtons and change the integer to the number representation you would like to use.

If browser.tabs.closeButtons does not exist, you can create it. Right-click the page and select New and then Integer.

You wont have to restart Firefox either, the changes will take effect automatically. Enjoy.

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