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What do you think about middle click on the title closes that tab??
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Middle click already has some very useful behavior which is actually used as for me as for many other users. And even mentioned in quick start guide, because of its usefulness.
It's open the tab in last focused window without restoring it in place, sometimes this is very handy.
Yet actually i cannot remember that i was used this for already open tabs. But this is an additional option and additional documentation paragraph and a little more to learn and read for every new user, and additional feature to support and test for me.
All of this ok if there is really many who need this. But I hear such request the first time. Will see if they get some up-votes.
Also i think it worth to note that this tool is not aimed to be the Chrome tabs strip replacement, as for example the Sidewise do.
This is more an organizer for saved tabs then something that what was the original TreeStyleTabs (in Firefox) or the Sidewise.
So aims is very different, and a target audience also (and that was also one of the reason i drop and cut the original Tree Style Tabs Outliner name, despite the fact that this might lead to some easy traffic - note that TO was released before the Sidewise, so might easily be the first (working) TST for Chrome - yet I decide not to take this name to not mislead the people). This is also why i not try to pretend that this is a sidebar, and many other decisions (like doubleclick to restore by default (can be switched to one click, but not recomended) and so on).
So if you like such Sidewise features like middle click to close, or something that they do with mouse wheel (never actually try) and so on - i think it is better idea to stick with Sidewise, very unlikely i will do all of this - have a huge list of other more important features to do.
Yet for example better search there will be of course (and it will be much better...).
The TO is even not trying to be always on screen as you might notice... so it is expected that most of the time you will actually use the original tab strip.
And in some next release i even plan to make the non-autoscroll the default... that was a mistake. Personally i disabled it long ago.
It sounds like you use Tabs Outliner differently from us. I've been using it as a quick way to free up 3 gigabytes of memory when I have 30 or 40 tabs open. Then, I can clean them up without having to reload them all. I can also SEE THEIR TITLES in Tabs Outliner, which I can't do in Chrome when there's 40 tabs in a window.
I don't want to reopen 40 tabs just so I can close them with the middle mouse button. Their titles will still be impossible to read, as well. It would be far easier if I could do it in Tabs Outliner. (And Sidewise is far less useful than Tabs Outliner. :)
So, the Trash Can button has 3 problems right now:
1) When you click it to close a tab, it doesn't reappear until you move your mouse. (This makes it hard to close many tabs quickly.)
2) The button is on the right side of the Window, so I have to move my eyes to quite a distance see which tab I have selected.
3) The vertical size of the title is very small, and the highlight is very hard to see, which makes it easy to accidentally pick the wrong title and close it.
A middle click option would solve all of these problems.
If you are dead-set against this feature, would you consider a compromise? Maybe Ctrl-Middleclick? Or an option in the settings to decide what middle click does?
Thanks for your time!
Next release will have a complete support for keyboard shortcuts, so it will be possible to delete tabs just by pressing Del, and move cursor by arrows keys - this might actually help in this case, as it is definitely a faster way to delete the tabs.