Use a Chromium build with left-positioned tab close buttons

May 12, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you're really annoyed by Chromium's placement of the tab close widget on the right side of the tab (as opposed to the left, as in Safari), here's a workaround, gleaned from the linked discussion...

In that discussion, user thakis posted a number of alternative placement thoughts, along with a patch that puts both the close icon and fav icon to the left of the tab name. User drew.ramos then applied that patch to a couple of Chromium builds:

[crarko adds: As Chrome/Chromium progresses, these builds (obviously) will become less current. You could follow the linked conversation, though, to spot newer builds with the close tab button on the left of the tab.]

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