1386835 - Apparent gap after tabs before + newtab due to low-contrast overflow arrow.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Bill his name]

Attachment: Big gap between last tab & +newtab button.Nightly 57.0a1.Capture.PNG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170802100302

Steps to reproduce:

Used Nightly.
Nightly 57.0a1 (2017-08-02) (32-bit)
Win10


Actual results:

Noticed a wasted gap from end of last tab to ➕ newtab button


Expected results:

I should have barely noticed the absence of any unwarranted gap
from end of last tab to ➕ newtab button

Comment 1

[Bill his name]

Doesn't look so bad with square tabs.

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

The issue here is that the tabstrip overflow buttons (the < and > buttons at either end of the tab strip, which you can use to scroll it when there are more tabs than space to display them) was bit low-contrast, especially against the particular LWT you have. You can see the button there in the screenshot if you look closely.

I think this button has improved a bit since this report was filed, and I'm not sure there's a better solution. This is fine if you use the default theme (or a LWT with a less busy / more-contrasty background).

Comment 3

[Bill his name]

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #2)

Thanks, I can just about see the greyed arrow once it's pointed out - and I thought I had super powers. Perhaps it's a peer group thing.

To me, it seems the issue is that the > (or <) button is greyed if it has nothing to do (?), 
making it invisible against some themes (such as Space Fantasy here, although addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/space-fantasy is curently a no-find)

If the redundant arrow was more visible & definite, such as barred-arrow  _≯_  say, or a clear stop _]_ , rather than apparently _  _ it would be less puzzing and need less explanation.

Clearly it's a style decision (and how much you are concerned about the appearance being puzzling & looking unfortunately amateurish in some themes.