Comments on: Firefox 1.5 and Tabbed Browsing on OS X

By: Thom Brooks

Thom Brooks — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:45:27 +0000

Darnit, there's an even simpler solution:

gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(1,true);
gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(-1,true);

The second argument to the function, which defaults to false, specifies that you want to loop back and forth when you cycle through tabs.

Still, it was a fun programming exercise and taught me about using the DOM Inspector to look at xbl bindings. Firefox is a pretty cool app.

By: Thom Brooks

Thom Brooks — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:56:15 +0000

Your 'next tab' code and mine were pretty much word for word, but here's a slight improvement on the 'previous' code. HTH.

// previous tab, cycle to last one if at beginning
if(gBrowser.mCurrentTab.previousSibling)
{
gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(-1);
}
else
{
// call method to go to tab:
gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex = gBrowser.mTabContainer.childNodes.length-1;
}

Thom Brooks
Chicago, IL