106614 - tab bar isn't constrained to window width

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101774

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Chris Abbey]

The new tabs are all created the same size without regard to the amount of space
available to them. You can recreate this by just hitting ctrl-t a few times
untill they insert off the end of the bar, depending on the size of your window
one of them may even partially obscure the X to close the tab.

I think ideally tab widths would: 1. shrink if the title was shorter. 2. widen
if the title is longer and there is space (probably up to some limit). 3. if
there isn't enough space on the tab bar to fit them all then there would be a
set of left/right scroll buttons on the tab bar (there's a program that does
this, but I can't think of the name of it for the life of me....), or there
would be a drop down list of additional tabs (much like Konsole does for example.)

I set a severity of minor on this because I doubt even power users will have
that many tabs in one window, and it's much lower in my opinion than basic
functionality.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101774 ***