Lost tab close buttons on tabs

I have lost the buttons (usually invisible til moused over) on individual tabs that allow closing the tab, when clicked on. Now I have to right click and chose 'close tab'. Rather unhandy. How can I get the buttons back? Thanks.
Barbara

Safari 5.1.7
I am current on all my updates.
Thanks!

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Safari 5.1.2 Tab Close Button on Different Sides in Windows

I'm not sure if this is unique to my computer(s), but I've noticed that the tab close button is on different sides in the Mac & Windows versions of Safari. On my Mac, the close button is on the Left-Hand side with the tab text centered on the tab. On my Windows, the close button is on the Right-hand side with the tab text justified to the left.
Why the difference in UI? I do quite a bit of browsing on both computers and I find that I'm constantly having to try to remember where I am to determine where the stupid close button is.
I've looked around in both the Mac & Windows versions and I can't find an option that specifies where the button is show and whether the text is justified or not.

OK, here's what I'm talking about. This is a screen capture of a tab from the Macintosh version of Safari:
Notice how the "X" to close the tab is on the left-hand side and the text of the tab is centered on the width of the tab.
Here is a screenshot of the Windows version of Safari:
You can see how the tab is much smaller for one, but also how the text is justified to the left with the "X" to close the tab appearing on the right side of the tab instead of the left.
I don't really prefer one over the other (ie. left or right side), I just wondered if there's some setting to make them act the same way on both so that I don't have to constantly remember what OS I'm on in order to remember where the darn "X" is to close the tab.

Close button on tabs have stopped appearing

When you hover over the title of a tab the close button should appear. This feature now longer works so I am having to right click the tab and then select the "close tab" option.
Any idea how I can get the close button to reappear?
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I googled for you "flex tabs close button" and found this -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67516/flex-how-to-add-a-tab-close-button-for-tabnavigat or-component
Here's my Google search results if you need -
http://www.google.co.il/search?q=flex+tabs+close+button

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Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.
* Use "Disable all add-ons" on the [[Safe mode]] start window to disable all extensions.
* Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")
In Firefox 4 you can use one of these to start in [[Safe mode]]:
* Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
* Hold down the Shift key while double clicking the Firefox desktop shortcut (Windows)
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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Set the pref browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false on the about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing the browser and make a close button appear if only one tab is open.
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[http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2005/11/tabcomponents_i_1.html|http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2005/11/tabcomponents_i_1.html]

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Hi all,
Greetings.
I am implementing a TabPane with different 'user form's in each Tab. And all the tabs are *'closable'*.
If the user enters some data in the form, and tries to close the tab without saving the form , i need to show a confirm dialogue box that the user should go ahead or not.
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Hi All,
Finally I managed to get the handler before closing the tab pane. :)
Though this is a bit weird work around, my requirement is fulfilled at-least.
Let me explain the workaround I did.
Tab tab = new Tab(title);
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 @Override
 public void handle(ActionEvent paramT) {
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 @Override
 public void handle(MouseEvent paramT) {
 // My logic to handle the close event or not.
 if( logic satisfied){
 closeEvent.handle(null);
 }else{
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 @Override
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I have gone to about:config to browser.tabs.close buttons. They allow digits of 0 thru 3. I have tried all the numbers.
0 shuts down 3 or more tabs at once, and 1,2, 3 all close two tabs at a time.
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[[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]
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Hello,
Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a ''Clean reinstall''. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:
'''Note:''' You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.
#Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
#After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
#Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
#*'''Windows:'''
#**C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
#**C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
#*'''Mac:''' Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
#*'''Linux:''' If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see [[Installing Firefox on Linux]]. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the [http://www.mozilla.org/firefox#desktop Firefox download page], simply remove the folder ''firefox'' in your home directory.
#Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
##Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
##Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.
More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems?esab=a&s=troubleshooting&r=3&as=s#w_5-reinstall-firefox here].
WARNING: Do not run Firefox's uninstaller or use a third party remover as part of this process, because that could permanently delete your Firefox data, including but not limited to, extensions, cache, cookies, bookmarks, personal settings and saved passwords. These cannot be recovered unless they have been backed up to an external device!
Please report back to see if this helped you!
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
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JTabbedPane with one close button for all tabs

Hello,
there have several solutions been posted for JTabbedPane subclasses that provide tabs with icons working as close buttons on each tab. I think this is not user friendly because the user can hit the close button accidentally when selecting a tab. And a "really close?" dialog is clumsy.
Therefore I prefer the Netscape browser style: There's only one close button rightmost of the tabs that closes the selected tab. But I don't have an idea how to achieve this.
Does anyone have a solution or an idea? Thanks in advance for help.

This solution has been posted several times and is not what I wanted. But I rewrote the thing so that
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- the close buttons work only with a left click (see code below).
I just wonder how I can move the text a little bit to the left so that the appearence is a bit more balanced. Can someone help, please?
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.FontMetrics;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
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 rect.y + 13);
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 rect.x + rect.width -10,
 rect.y + 7,
 rect.x + rect.width -16,
 rect.y + 13);
 g.drawLine(
 rect.x + rect.width -15,
 rect.y + 7,
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 rect.y + 13);
 g.drawLine(
 rect.x + rect.width -9,
 rect.y + 7,
 rect.x + rect.width -15,
 rect.y + 13);
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 int tabIndex,
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 int y = e.getY();
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 int tabCount = tabPane.getTabCount();
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tabIndex = i;
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import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
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JTabbedPane tabPane;
public TabbedPaneWithCloseButtons() throws Exception {
frame=new JFrame();
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frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
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[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config Entries]
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[https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options#Browser Firefox Commands]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting Basic Troubleshooting]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/common-questions-after-upgrading-firefox-36 After Upgrading]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode Safe Mode]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic Extensions]
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[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20plugins Troubleshooting Plugins]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_plugins Testing Plugins]

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