290613 - opening too many tabs makes the last opened tabs "vanish" outside the tab bars right side

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221684

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Uwe Zeppei]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When you open a lot of tabs in Firefox at some point the new tabs (actually, the
small tab itself you click on to switch between the tabs) open outside the
browser window (they kind of flow out on the right side). When in full-size mode
you'd need approx. 42-44 tabs on 1280x1024res to see that. You still can view
the page on the newly opened tab but can never return to it once you left it
because there is nothing visible in the tab bar to click on to switch back to
the tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a lot of tabs until the tabs in the tab bar don't get any smaller and
new tabs are not displayed in the tab bar
2. click on a tab in the tab bar that's visible
3. try to return to the tab that was opened last

Actual Results:  
The tabs last openend aren't accessible since the tabs are not visible in the
tab bar

Expected Results:  
Two possibilitys: a) give me at least scroll arrows to scroll horizontally or
vertically through the tab bar or b) allow me to change height of the tab bar
and get two or three rows of tabs and if that's not enough scroll bars (like the
windows taskbar does when there is not enough room for all program "icons" in
the taskbar (I'm not talking about the WinXP taskbar))

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221684 ***