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lonesomepoint

changing the appearance of tab switching

Unread post by lonesomepoint »

I notice that in Pale Moon, the process of switching tabs is slightly different from Firefox's, at least by default(?). When you press ctrl-tab, a horizontal bar appears near the center of the screen to display the different tabs (only some, if you have many tabs open), and disappears when you let go of ctrl-tab. Although this seems to have at least one advantage (it's faster--if you switch to a tab not adjacent to the tab you were viewing, and then switch back, you will be returned to the other tab without having to cycle through all the tabs), I was perfectly happy with the old way of tab-switching, and probably prefer it. Is there a way to switch back?

fillerup

Re: changing the appearance of tab switching

Unread post by fillerup »

set browser.ctrlTab.preview to false

lonesomepoint

Re: changing the appearance of tab switching

Unread post by lonesomepoint »

fillerup wrote:set browser.ctrlTab.preview to false
Okay. In what file?

Andrew Gilbertson

Re: changing the appearance of tab switching

Unread post by Andrew Gilbertson »

lonesomepoint wrote:
fillerup wrote:set browser.ctrlTab.preview to false
Okay. In what file?
You access it by putting about:config in the URL bar. There are a LOT of setting accessible this way, so be careful about what you change.

lonesomepoint

Re: changing the appearance of tab switching

Unread post by lonesomepoint »

That solved it, thank you.

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