Open mail logic
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Hi,
I have this almost unconscious habit of doubleclicking the tab bar for a new tab whenever I want to do something new with Firefox, for example to go to a different webpage. X-Notifier can be comfortably used to open my mail accounts, however it can only do it in a new tab so I end up opening 2 tabs all the time. It would be really nice if X-Notifier could use the current blank page (or in my case the Fast Dial page) to open the mail account. Or if this is too hard to implement for me it would be okay if X-Notifier could simply use the current tab (the same way it happens when I click on a bookmark).
RpD
Wed, 03/04/2015 - 13:05
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Optional
Needs to be an optional toggle, perhaps on the X-Notifier, Options, General tab, "Open messages" area... a checkbox for "Use current tab" ...since many people will like the current behavior of forcing a new tab so they don't lose the current tab they're working on.
And then your optional setting would prevent opening multiple accounts in different tabs ...probably why X-Notifier forces a new tab each time a different account is opened...so we can open multiple accounts each in their own tab.
Otherwise, what is "doubleclicking the tab bar"?
For new tabs, FF has the mini " + " tab... and when I doubleclick elsewhere on the tabs area, it makes the FF window maxmize to the screen.
(Windows or Mac?)
soger
Thu, 03/05/2015 - 09:41
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I agree, that it needs to be
I agree, that it needs to be optional, the place you mentioned (the Open Messages area) was the first place I looked for the option.
But you are right, X-Notifier would have to know that it's opening more tabs at the same time and open the 2nd, 3rd etc in new tabs.
Or maybe we could go with my other idea, there's already a checkbox called "Reuse opened tabs", maybe another one would be nice, somehing like "Use blank tabs" - of course I'm only talking here, I have no idea how X-Notifier can determine which tab is doing what and my situation is further complicated by the fact that Fast Dial is my blank page.
About this doubleclicking business, I'm on Linux+KDE, my tabs are not shown on the window decoration (I saw that firefox does that on windows) but on a bar of their own and double clicking somewhere on the tab bar where it's empty opens a new tab. But of course I have the "+" icon too and I use it when the tab bar is full.
There used to be a firefox option called "Tabs on top" that configured if you wanted your tabs in the window decoration (that did nothing on my system) but I can no longer find it.
One more thing, actually this doubleclicking gesture is not uncommon, for example Konsole and Geany does it too.