195468 - Mozilla should have stacked tabs after 12 tabs have been opened

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155325

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Joshua Holman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030228
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030228

Crazy Browser (An MSIE front end for Windows) has an interesting tabbed browsing
feature that stacks tabs on top of each other when the titles get long.
Currently Mozilla has tabs side by side, which can be diffcult to read after
more than eight are used. I read a comment on Slashdot which echoed this gripe.
Crazy Browser has this feature disabled. If Mozilla adopts this feature, we
should follow this course. I also suggest that this feature should be used only
when the user has 12 tabs open. Attached are photos of Crazy Browser's stacked
browsing and Mozilla's current tabbed browsing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Open 12 tabs.
3. Try to make out titles of tabs.
Actual Results:  
I was unable to read titles of tabs.

Expected Results:  
Tabs should have been stacked or layered instead of side by side. Titles of tabs
would have been readable.

I am only Windows Me with 233 Mhz P3 processor and 64 MB of RAM.

Comment 1

[Joshua Holman]

Attachment: Crazy Browser's stacked tabbed browsing

With stacked tabbed browsing, tab titles are easy to read.

Comment 2

[Joshua Holman]

Attachment: Moz's current tabbed browsing

Mozilla's tabbed browsing after 12 tabs. Notice how this makes tabs hard to
read and in some ways, a pain to use.

Comment 3

[James Graham]

This is a dupe of bug 155325. If someone would be so kind as to mark it such.

Comment 4

[Alfonso Martinez]

marking dup as suggested by James Graham.

On a side note: Joshua, you don't need to add yourself to the CC list in the bug
that you report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155325 ***

Comment 5

[Seth Master]

Dont worry Jason, I always add my self to the CC as well when I create a bug.

Comment 6

[Seth Master]

I mean Joshua, not Jason