108510 - Tabs in tabbed browser have wrong sizes

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Luke Reeves]

When I open new tabs using Mozilla (up to build 2001110503) they're way too long
horizontally - they take so much screen space, that only three fit and the close
X button is hidden off the side of the screen.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The tabs auto-size now.  If you open more than three they should get smaller.

The [x] button was removed a while back.  It no longer exists.  Middle click on
a tab will close it.

Comment 2

[xyzzy]

Yes, auto-size seems to be working well, but can the first few tabs default to a 
smaller size?  Three across is too few, IMHO.  Five or six would seem much nicer 
to me, perhaps for the reporter as well.

Comment 3

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Try adding a 4th, a 5th, a 6th, a 7th, an 8th, a 9th ...

They'll just get smaller and still fit :-)

So, this allows the tabs to have bigger titles in the common case (up to 4 or 5
tabs), while still being able to have more tabs in there (at the "cost" of
having less of each tab title visible).

Marking this bug invalid since more than 3 tabs will fit and the X was removed
on purpose (there's another bug on adding some UI to replace it, for now use the
context menu, press ctrl-F4 for the active tab, or middle-click on the tab you
want to close).

Comment 4

[xyzzy]

Please re-read my comments.  This is not invalid.  I am requesting that the tabs 
begin auto-sizing not after 3 are present, but after a larger number are 
present, say 5 or 6.  This means that the default tab size must shrink, which is 
how I interpret the reporter's comments.

At present, they are simply *too big* by default.  If two tabs are open, and 
more than 50% of the horizontal real estate is consumed, the interface looks 
bad, IMHO.  If the UI people disagree, please mark this invalid again.

Comment 5

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Ah, that's not how I read the original report ("they take so much screen space,
that only three fit and the close X button is hidden off the side of the
screen").

As to your complaint that they're too wide from an aesthetical point of view, I
guess that's a matter of opinion. I personally like them this wide :-)

Comment 6

[Luke Reeves]

Yep, you're Boris.  I'll mark this as invalid.