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Firefox:3.0 Tabbed Browsing

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Required Features
* Close buttons on tabs
** xxxmpc: This is a big pain for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27_law Fitts' Law] adherence, the smaller target area is made even smaller by the "danger" aspect of the click area. This is allegedly "faster" but we're probably going to force all users to slow down, whether they realize it or not. Maybe enable an Accel-Click modifier to close tabs quickly (in addition to middle-click on non-contentLoadURL platforms). This would be faster/safer in both cases (closing and selecting).
*** bugmenot: Other than the mouse click modifier, a right-click per-tab close button could also work (Maxthon uses this approach). We can also hide and disable the per-tab close button unless the user has pointed their mouse on the tab for a specified amount of time. Another option may be to hide the close button until the tab is clicked, ie. click once to select tab and show close button, then click the close button. It should probably hide itself after a specified time as well.
* Overflow bucket
* The history system needs to be made more compatible with tabbed browsing. In particular, we should adopt a brached history system (that braches every time the user opens a new tab/window) where the user can always go back unless he/she has reached the homepage.
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