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This should be the exact same build as build 1, right? It's not newer at all? I was hoping tab animations would make it in 7.0 beta 1, but I guess it didn't according to one user in this thread. Thanks!

Tab animation is in FF8 Aurora and much welcome. Very smooth animation compared to what you currently have in FF7.

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I can't be the only one who finds the animations for moving tabs between windows a little lacking. All of a sudden, it reverts to the little arrow rather than the smooth moving tabs animation you get when moving tabs within the window.

Also, how am I supposed to drag a tab from one window to one that is minimized? The way it is now, I have to open both windows, and then move the tab. Most of the time, this isn't a problem since I usually have all the windows that I'm working with, already open. But in those other instances, it requires a little more clicking than it used to.

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There is a little trick with the new tab drag&detach animations.If you want to move the tab to your bookmarks bar to make a bookmark or to another window that is not side by side,you can hold control before you start dragging the tab(This however is not really moving the tab,but copying it).In the window you drag the tab into you get the arrow style pointer which shows where it will copy the tab to or drop it on the active tab to replace it.I hope it helps you.

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I can't be the only one who finds the animations for moving tabs between windows a little lacking. All of a sudden, it reverts to the little arrow rather than the smooth moving tabs animation you get when moving tabs within the window.

that may be added later, i'm not sure if that's intentional or not, you gotta remember the tab animation was just added so it may not be feature complete yet

Also, how am I supposed to drag a tab from one window to one that is minimized? The way it is now, I have to open both windows, and then move the tab. Most of the time, this isn't a problem since I usually have all the windows that I'm working with, already open. But in those other instances, it requires a little more clicking than it used to.

I think this may just be a limitation of having tab animation because Chrome has this same issue

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Tab animation is in FF8 Aurora and much welcome. Very smooth animation compared to what you currently have in FF7.

Yeah, I know. I have used it in Nightly 8, which is about to be Aurora 8 as soon as Friday possibly. I like it. It makes organizing my tabs a lot easier. I was told it was going to make it into 7.0 Beta 1, but I guess it didn't for some reason. It should still be in the newest nightly, right? It is about to be 9.0 soon. I'm just looking for a version that has tab animations AND works with my two most used add-ons, TabMixPlus, and TabGroups Manager. It seems that there's some major conflicts with one or both. I'm hoping the authors release new versions that will be compatible soon, but I may have to wait until the end of September when Firefox 7.0 goes final, if they even get them updated by then. Let me know if anyone gets them to work with any build that has tab animations working as well. Thanks!
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Yeah, I know. I have used it in Nightly 8, which is about to be Aurora 8 as soon as Friday possibly. I like it. It makes organizing my tabs a lot easier. I was told it was going to make it into 7.0 Beta 1, but I guess it didn't for some reason. It should still be in the newest nightly, right? It is about to be 9.0 soon. I'm just looking for a version that has tab animations AND works with my two most used add-ons, TabMixPlus, and TabGroups Manager. It seems that there's some major conflicts with one or both. I'm hoping the authors release new versions that will be compatible soon, but I may have to wait until the end of September when Firefox 7.0 goes final, if they even get them updated by then. Let me know if anyone gets them to work with any build that has tab animations working as well. Thanks!

Yeah, it's still in FF8 and no reason why it shouldn't be in FF9.

Pretty sure the addon devs are working on updating their code to play nice with the tab animation. Although I don't use neither app, hope they push out an update soon.

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ha ha go for the tinderbox builds. I am.

What's so great about them? I assume you're talking about the nightly 9.0 builds. What is new in 9.0 compared to 8.0? Isn't that a 64 bit build? That means you have to run Flash 11 Beta 2, right? Regular Flash won't work. Has that been a smooth experience? No crashes?
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Here's the update for anyone that cares. I installed the newest Aurora 8.0a2, which is great and has the Tab Animation that I want. Only problem is, it still doesn't work properly with TabMixPlus. That's really not that big of a deal. I just disable it, and then I get back the tab animation. It also wasn't working with my most used add-on, which is TabGroups Manager. It wasn't working at all before, but now it kind of works. You still can't click and drag a tab from one group to another, but you can now use the right click menu send to other group. That at least makes TabGroups Manager somewhat useable. I don't mind not using TabMix Plus, but now I need to find an add-on that has a menu for undoing closed tabs. I'm on the hunt for a good one now.

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I've same problem with TMP as You, I was made small research and I've find this add https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-utilities/ called Tab Utilities, same functionality as TMP but tab animation is working as well, I suggest to You install DEV version , working as charm ;)

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I've same problem with TMP as You, I was made small research and I've find this add https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-utilities/ called Tab Utilities, same functionality as TMP but tab animation is working as well, I suggest to You install DEV version , working as charm ;)

This! Tab Utilities has always rocked more than Tab Mix Plus! Has the same features too and much more! The best part it has a built in bartab feature of unloading tabs! Not only that you can customize the way unloaded tabs look if you use this feature in Tab Utilities!

What is really nice about Tab Utilities is being able to set your unread tabs to whatever style and colors you want! It even saves the state if you read a tab or not if you shutdown firefox and reopen it! The author of the program added side tabs as well recently!

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What's so great about them? I assume you're talking about the nightly 9.0 builds. What is new in 9.0 compared to 8.0? Isn't that a 64 bit build? That means you have to run Flash 11 Beta 2, right? Regular Flash won't work. Has that been a smooth experience? No crashes?

tinderbox builds can be hourly builds. yes it's a 64 bit build, yes, but it works better then main version of flash, only 1 flash crash in 3 months i've been using the x64 nightly.

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I've same problem with TMP as You, I was made small research and I've find this add https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-utilities/ called Tab Utilities, same functionality as TMP but tab animation is working as well, I suggest to You install DEV version , working as charm ;)

Thanks for the reply! That was one of the ones I was looking at. I'm happy to hear it works. Now, the question becomes do I keep using Aurora 8.0a2, or will that add-on also work with the newest nightly, which will be 9.0 soon? 7.0 is fast, 8.0 is very fast, so I would assume 9.0 is going to be even faster. I can't imagine it being faster than 8.0a2, though. It's instant.
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You can right click and send tabs to groups without an add-on as long as you've named your groups in panorama.

Also, you can right click on any tab to bring up a menu with the option to undo closed tabs. You don't need an add-on for that either.

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New designs:

Awesomebar results: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/a8/LocationBar-Results-i01.jpg

Download panel: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/download-panel-specs/download-panel-specs.html

Download animations: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/download-added-animation/download-added-animation-01.html and http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/download-added-animation/download-added-animation-02.html

and other stuff:

http://blog.stephenhorlander.com/2011/08/weekly-design-status-update/

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What's so great about them? I assume you're talking about the nightly 9.0 builds. What is new in 9.0 compared to 8.0? Isn't that a 64 bit build? That means you have to run Flash 11 Beta 2, right? Regular Flash won't work. Has that been a smooth experience? No crashes?

Tinderbox builds are done hourly, so quite often they'll simply not run (and they update to the nightly builds, so you have to manually download them anyway). There are 64bit versions, simply because Mozilla have automated 64bit builds (for regression testing), like the 64bit Nightly builds they're not really for general use.

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Looks much better than the wavy tab mockups. I am looking forward to these changes.

The linux mockup in particular looks much better than firefox currently does in linux.

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Grrr...

One really annoying bug is the dragging a tab to the bookmarks bar does not save it as a bookmark in Aurora 8. Very annoying and the only way around it is to manually click the star or use keyboard shortcut. Anyone know if there has been a bug report filed for this? Hope they fix it soon.

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Grrr...

One really annoying bug is the dragging a tab to the bookmarks bar does not save it as a bookmark in Aurora 8. Very annoying and the only way around it is to manually click the star or use keyboard shortcut. Anyone know if there has been a bug report filed for this? Hope they fix it soon.

I just tested this in ff9 nightly and it does it there too. Seems related to the new tab tearing animations.

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