FireFox 57 - Lock Tab

[Ken Blake]

"Lock" may be the wrong word; I can't remember for sure.

Before 57, there was a setting if you right-clicked a tab that
prevented the tab from being closed. It's gone now. Does anyone know a
way to get it back, either by a setting or an extension?

[John McGaw]

_P_in Tab?

[Mark12547]

In article <mailman.2488.1511105800.16832.support-
fir...@lists.mozilla.org>, K...@invalid.news.com says...

> Before 57, there was a setting if you right-clicked a tab that
> prevented the tab from being closed. It's gone now. Does anyone know a
> way to get it back, either by a setting or an extension?
>

Are you thinking of "pin tab"? If so, it is in the context menu when one
right+clicks on a tab.

[Ken Blake]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:20:47 -0800, Mark12547
<mark...@xyzzy.invalid> wrote:

>In article <mailman.2488.1511105800.16832.support-
>fir...@lists.mozilla.org>, K...@invalid.news.com says...
>> Before 57, there was a setting if you right-clicked a tab that
>> prevented the tab from being closed. It's gone now. Does anyone know a
>> way to get it back, either by a setting or an extension?
>>
>
>Are you thinking of "pin tab"?

I don't know. (See below)

> If so, it is in the context menu when one
>right+clicks on a tab.

I thought that might have been what I was looking for, so I tried it
right after 57 came out. But to my surprise, what it did was close the
tab.

Given your message, I just tried it again. Same result: it closed the
tab.

Anyone know what might be wrong and how to fix it?

[WaltS48]

Is the pinned tab now showing in the New Tab page?

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[Ken Blake]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:45:14 -0500, WaltS48
<wls220...@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/19/17 12:35 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:20:47 -0800, Mark12547
>> <mark...@xyzzy.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <mailman.2488.1511105800.16832.support-
>>> fir...@lists.mozilla.org>, K...@invalid.news.com says...
>>>> Before 57, there was a setting if you right-clicked a tab that
>>>> prevented the tab from being closed. It's gone now. Does anyone know a
>>>> way to get it back, either by a setting or an extension?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you thinking of "pin tab"?
>>
>>
>> I don't know. (See below)
>>
>>
>>> If so, it is in the context menu when one
>>> right+clicks on a tab.
>>
>>
>>
>> I thought that might have been what I was looking for, so I tried it
>> right after 57 came out. But to my surprise, what it did was close the
>> tab.
>>
>> Given your message, I just tried it again. Same result: it closed the
>> tab.
>>
>> Anyone know what might be wrong and how to fix it?
>>
>
>Is the pinned tab now showing in the New Tab page?

Are you asking about the tab that shows when you press the + sign to
the right of the tabs? No, it's not.

Is that what "Pin tab" is supposed to do? If so, that's very different
from what I wanted (see above).

[Keith Nuttle]

It does not completely disappear, but become a small icon on the far
left of the tabs bar.

[John McGaw]

On 11/19/2017 12:35 PM, Ken Blake wrote:

When I pin any given tab it disappears from its former position and
re-appears at the far left of the tab bar, beyond the left arrow, and shows
up in a different color. If I right-click it there and un-pin it then it
goes back among the regular batch of tabs. I've never used the feature for
anything but it seems to be functional to me.

[WaltS48]

I never used Pin Tab, but it doesn't close the tab for me in my test. It
does place the favicon to the left of the first tab.

[Ken Blake]

Thanks very much. Now that you point it out, I see it there. That's
not exactly what I wanted, but it might be better than nothing. I'll
try using it for a while before I decide how I like it.

[Ken Blake]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:45:25 -0700, Ken Blake <K...@invalid.news.com>

It didn't take me long to decide that I didn't like it. All it does is
substitute a smaller tab for the bigger one. The small one is not
protected against accidental closure, which is what I used to have and
what I wanted.

So I'll ask my original question again: Before 57, there was a

[Chris Ilias]

On 2017-11-19 1:45 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>> In article <mailman.2488.1511105800.16832.support-
>>>> fir...@lists.mozilla.org>, K...@invalid.news.com says...
>>>>> Before 57, there was a setting if you right-clicked a tab that
>>>>> prevented the tab from being closed. It's gone now. Does anyone know a
>>>>> way to get it back, either by a setting or an extension?
>

> Thanks very much. Now that you point it out, I see it there. That's
> not exactly what I wanted, but it might be better than nothing. I'll
> try using it for a while before I decide how I like it.
>

For information about pinned tabs, see
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pinned-tabs-keep-favorite-websites-open>

To address your original question, I don't recall Firefox ever having a
lock tab feature. Are you sure it wasn't part of an add-on?


--
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Mailing list/Newsgroup moderator

[Ken Blake]

No, I'm not sure. But if it was, I don't remember which one. Several
have of course been disabled by 57.

[Chris Ilias]

As a workaround, if you accidentally close a tab, just right-click on
any current tab and select "Undo Close tab".

[WaltS48]

You have already removed the extensions disabled by Firefox? They should
still be there in your Add-ons Manager, in the Legacy Extensions section
right under Plugins.

[John McGaw]

To quote Mozilla: "Pinned Tabs are small – only showing the site's icon,
not its title – and they live on the left side of the Tab Strip. Pinned
Tabs don't have a close button so you can't accidentally close them. You
can still close them by right-clicking on them and selecting Close Tab from
the menu."

As they say, you cannot _accidentally_ close them. If you intentionally
close them then there isn't anything to be done for it.

[Ken Blake]

You *can* accidentally close them, and I've done it several times,
which I why I don't like the feature.

I almost never use the close button. I use the Gesturefy extension,
which I like very much. It lets me do many common things with a mouse
gesture, and one of those common things is closing a tab. It works
exactly the same way with a pinned tab as with a regular tab.

[Ken Blake]

Thanks very much. That's a very good workaround. Now all I have to do
is remember it. :-)

[Ken Blake]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:36:23 -0500, WaltS48
<wls220...@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/19/17 2:31 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:20:38 -0500, Chris Ilias <nm...@ilias.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-11-19 1:45 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <mailman.2488.1511105800.16832.support-
>>>>>>> fir...@lists.mozilla.org>, K...@invalid.news.com says...
>>>>>>>> Before 57, there was a setting if you right-clicked a tab that
>>>>>>>> prevented the tab from being closed. It's gone now. Does anyone know a
>>>>>>>> way to get it back, either by a setting or an extension?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much. Now that you point it out, I see it there. That's
>>>> not exactly what I wanted, but it might be better than nothing. I'll
>>>> try using it for a while before I decide how I like it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For information about pinned tabs, see
>>> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pinned-tabs-keep-favorite-websites-open>
>>>
>>> To address your original question, I don't recall Firefox ever having a
>>> lock tab feature. Are you sure it wasn't part of an add-on?
>>
>>
>>
>> No, I'm not sure. But if it was, I don't remember which one. Several
>> have of course been disabled by 57.
>>
>
>You have already removed the extensions disabled by Firefox? They should
>still be there in your Add-ons Manager, in the Legacy Extensions section
>right under Plugins.

Yes, I know. But their names don't tell me which, if any, of them had
this feature.

[Sailfish]

My bloviated meandering follows what Ken Blake graced us with on
11/19/2017 9:35 AM:

While I haven't installed Fx57, I can confirm that prior version of Fx
(I'm now on 52.5) had two options in the tab context menu (Protect Tab
and Lock Tab). However, those were provided bt TabMixPlus which is not
compatible with Fx 57.

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[Ken Blake]

Thanks very much. I suspected that it might have been an add-on. I
used to run TabMixPlus.

So, can you, or anyone else here tell me whether, and if so when,
TabMixPlus will come out with a FireFox 57-compatible version? Or
whether someone else has come out or will come out with an extension
that does the same thing?

[m]

On 20/11/2017 18:00, Ken Blake wrote:
> So, can you, or anyone else here tell me whether, and if so when,
> TabMixPlus will come out with a FireFox 57-compatible version? Or
> whether someone else has come out or will come out with an extension
> that does the same thing?
>

<http://tabmixplus.org/support/troubleshooting/data/legacy-tabmix.html>

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/topicalsearch/tmp-alternatives/>

[Ken Blake]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:36:33 +0000, m <mUs...@NOSPAMexcite.com> wrote:

>On 20/11/2017 18:00, Ken Blake wrote:
>> So, can you, or anyone else here tell me whether, and if so when,
>> TabMixPlus will come out with a FireFox 57-compatible version? Or
>> whether someone else has come out or will come out with an extension
>> that does the same thing?
>>
><http://tabmixplus.org/support/troubleshooting/data/legacy-tabmix.html>

Thanks. I guess I have to be patient and hopeful.


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Most of those are not compatible with 57 either, and I didn't see
anything that had the feature I wanted.