I’ve switched to using Adium as my instant messaging Swiss Army Knife of choice. But I couldn’t figure out how to close the tabs that appear in the “each chat in its own tab” Adium window. Turns out the close feature is very elegant, but perhaps too subtle: hover over the icon in the tab and it morphs into a close button:
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You can also use the almost
You can also use the almost universal OS X keyboard shortcut CMD-W to close the current window (and in tabbed enviroments, the current tab).
Awesome. I couldn’t figure it
Awesome. I couldn’t figure it out, and it’s so simple…
Thanks for posting that! I
Thanks for posting that! I just felt like a total moron trying to figure it out for about 15 minutes. I agree, it is very slick, but way too subtle.
Does anyone know how to turn
Does anyone know how to turn this method of closing tabs off? I keep closing tabs by accident and am getting frustrated. Thanks
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