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OOo needs tabs

Posted in innovation, it, opensource by dotmrt on April 1st, 2008

Ingenious comment on OOninja.com:

“OOwriter needs tab browsing like Firefox. Everyday I need several documents open at once.”

Update 20080405

Many thanks go to Andrew Z from OOOninja for directing my attention to OOo Tabs extension. It’s something similar to what I thought, but not quite.

  • You cannot navigate through tabs with the usual ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab
  • you cannot close tabs with ctrl+w
  • well also the right click menu on the tabs bar doesn’t give you the option to close a tab - you simply have to go File->Close
  • and the tab titles don’t reflect the titles of the documents, simply “my windowN”
  • I hope they learn from Firefox, fix the previously mentioned discomforts, also closing “X” would be nice
  • and in the future I hope they also get to implementing Firefox’s FishEyeTabs, as I cannot live without it anymore :P.
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  1. Andrew Z said, on April 2nd, 2008 at 03:26:01

    Did you catch my reply? :) Tabbed browsing in OOo is old.

  2. dotmrt said, on April 5th, 2008 at 14:35:04

    Thanks a bunch Andrew Z. I missed your original comment, but now I tried it out. I updated the post also with my comments. In short: “close, but not quite”.

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