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How do I disable tabs in Firefox 4?

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ShakaUVM
ShakaUVM
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Tabkiller existed for Firefox 3, and served those of us that *hate* the TDI interface of Firefox.

I already have a window manager to manage my windows, I don't need another one, thank you very much.

Please let me know if there's a hidden setting for disabling the damn things. It's the only thing keeping me from using FF4.

Tabkiller existed for Firefox 3, and served those of us that *hate* the TDI interface of Firefox. I already have a window manager to manage my windows, I don't need another one, thank you very much. Please let me know if there's a hidden setting for disabling the damn things. It's the only thing keeping me from using FF4.

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kid185
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i dont know why it worked, but had two tabs open and i dragged one of the tabs down to the desktop. it gave me two instances of firefox. Since then i dont have tabs in firefox 4. might be just a bug, but i hope they dont fix it until they give us a way to turn tabs off officially.

ShakaUVM
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Yeah, you can always drag tabs down to turn them into new windows, but it doesn't disable tabs. I just double checked.