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user-inactivated  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UX and the Civilizing Process

    Garry Tan calls our attention to a great example of interface hospitality: Chrome’s tab-closing behavior. When you click the ‘x’ to close a tab, the remaining tabs shift or resize so that the next tab’s ‘x’ is right underneath your cursor. This way you can close multiple tabs without moving your mouse. Once you get used to it, the behavior of other browsers starts to seem uncouth in comparison.

Firefox does this I just checked. For the record.