Stupendously useful Firefox feature
I only just found out that the scroll wheel on mice works with tabs in Firefox 2.0.
Yes, yes, so you've RTFM'ed and found about this in 1995 already. I had the mouse cursor pointing to the upper area of the Firefox window, where the tabs with the different webpages are.
And... I twiddled the scroll wheel by accident, and the tabs, well, scrolled.
This is very n00b, but I can't tell you have pleased I am to have found that feature. I have lots and lots of tabs open in Firefox, and being able to scroll between them is a great time-saver.
Not a biggie, but IE7 doesn't do it. :)
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You probably know this already, but the amount of tabs needs to "overflow" the space for the FF 2.0 window for scrolling to become active... :)
I didn't do anything special to scroll the tabs. It's a default FF 2.0 installation.
Posted by: Juha | April 12, 2007 10:14 AM
For some reason it doesn't work here either... Not even when the tab strip is focused. (Fx 2.0)
Posted by: David Naylor | April 11, 2007 1:06 AM
Nigel & Alex: do you have FF 2.0? I don't think 1.5.x supports it.
Posted by: Juha | April 10, 2007 6:58 PM
I also can't get it working in Windows
Posted by: Nigel | April 10, 2007 3:13 PM
I can't get it working. :(
Posted by: Alex Burgess | April 10, 2007 12:09 PM
Most useful trick I heard about was clicking the mousewheel on a link to open a new tab with that link. As per article everyone reading this probably knew that, but most people IRL don't and it's bloody handy :)
Posted by: mmmork | April 10, 2007 11:17 AM
Also in KDE 3.5 the scroll wheel will swap you between your virtual desktops. Just hold the cursor over any blank desktop area or any unused bit of the tool bar and scroll between desktops.
Posted by: Chris | April 10, 2007 8:39 AM
If you like that, you'll love how Linux handles the scroll wheel (in KDE, at least; I'm not so familiar with Gnome). Try it out; experiment with it. For example, using the scroll wheel alone, you can switch the focus to another window and scroll in it, without bringing it in front of the smaller window in front that you happen to be reading, too.
()(
Posted by: Tim | April 10, 2007 7:54 AM