Filed under: Productivity, Mozilla, Browser Tips
Fix Firefox 2's scrolling tabs
If you're an avid tabbed browsing fan and upgraded to one of the Firefox 2 betas or release candidates in previous weeks, you undoubtedly noticed that the new version does tabs a little differently, giving tabs a fixed minimum width and displaying scroll arrows at the ends of the tab bar if you run out of space. This isn't a bad behavior, but compared to Firefox 1 which would show dozens of tabs all scrunched next to eachother without making you scroll, Firefox 2, which maxes out at a dozen or so when you've got your window maximized at 1280x1024 (and who maximizes anymore, really?), seems a tad limited. Of course, there's a way to change this behavior if you're willing to poke around, and Lifehacker gives you the stop-by-step how-to. In short, you go to about:config and change the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth setting to something smaller, or 0 if you want to revert back to the Firefox 1 functionality.
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Chad said 5:28PM on 10-18-2006
Now tell me how to get rid of the close button on EVERY tab. I really prefer it the other way around.
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BrianS said 11:37PM on 10-18-2006
Agreed. I want to know how to get back the one 'close button' on the right (which has been replaced by the 'tab drop-down' list). Until that happens, Im sticking with the old Firefox (or maybe even going with IE - argh!)
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Atanas Boev said 3:15AM on 10-19-2006
How about zooming-on-hover tabs, Mac OS style?
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rikardo said 8:53AM on 10-19-2006
if you want to get rid of the close button :
In about:config change the value broser.tabs.closeButtons to
1 -close button only on active tab
2 -on each tab
3 -dont show any close button
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Medlir said 5:52PM on 10-19-2006
Hooray for the Tab Mix Plus extension.
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