153673 - Option to hide or show page/favicon image on tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 109899

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Joel Thornton]

It would be useful to have an option to either show (default) or hide the page/
favicon icon shown on the left end of each tab on the tab bar.  These icons take
up a considerable amount of available screen real estate, and in most cases don't
add much value to the "browsing experience" (IMHO). Having them hidden would
create quite a bit of extra horizontal space on the tab bar, which can get
decidedly crowded at times (e.g., all tabs having titles of "..."). This would
also help alleviate the concern of crowding expressed in relation to the 
bug 108938 enhancement.

One thing that would be lost if these icons were hidden is the animated reloading
icon shown while a page is reloading. This could be compensated for by either
temporarily showing the reloader animation during reloads, or else modifying the
text style of the tab title (perhaps by making it a green or dark-grey color, or by italicizing).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is basically a themes issue, no?  Any theme can choose to hide those icons...

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109899 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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