One thing Internet Explorer does better than Firefox

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Les Jones

I use Firefox on all of my computers, but I’ve been using Internet Explorer 7 in the hotel’s business center this week.

IE7 has one feature I like better than Firefox. When you right-click to open a link in a new tab, Firefox opens the new tab at the far right of your open tabs. I sometimes have a dozen or more tabs open, so it’s a long drive to get to that last tab. IE7 opens the new tab immediately to the right of the current tab, which is much smarter.

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3 Responses to One thing Internet Explorer does better than Firefox

  1. jon hickman says:
    October 9, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Google “tab mix plus.” I think it’s even at AMO (addons.mozilla.org). You can change that setting as well as many others. I also like to be able to double click on a tab to reload it and middle click to close it. And scroll with the mouse wheel. I can’t do w/o that. I think there are other things there that I totally rely on for good browsing.

    One of the big benefits to mozilla products is the community of addon developers.

  2. Les Jones says:
    October 10, 2008 at 10:31 am

    Thanks. I should have figured there’d be an add-on to do that.

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