Fixing Firefox redux

If, like me, you spend more than 12 hours a day on the internet, you may want Firefox to stay open even when you click the close button on your last open tab (this was the default behavior before version 3.5). To make it do this, type about:config in the address bar and set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.

Fixing Firefox 2.0

Over at some blog I’d never heard of before, some blogger I don’t know explains how to fix one of the “improvements” of Firefox 2.0. To get back to a single close tabs button instead of one for each tab, do the following:

In the address box type about:config and press enter

Scroll down to where it says browser.tabs.closeButtons and change the value to one of the following:

* 0 – Close button on open tab only (what I’m using now)
* 1 – Close buttons on all tabs (default)
* 2 – No close buttons at all (use middle click to close tabs)
* 3 – Close button on the far right (old school)

Please note that upgrading to Firefox 2.0 also broke another of my settings. To force javascript links to open in a new tab instead of a new window, set this variable in about:config to zero:
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
This forces haloscan comments to open in a new tab.