292593 - multiline tab bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[peter gervai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)

would be nice to have the possibility to split the tabs in multiple lines, to
make it possible to open, say, 100 tabs. 

Minimal size could be set, so surplus tabs [which would cause others to ge below
minimal size] would go in the next line. (Opera-like.)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open 40 tabs
2.try to read from the title what's in them :)
3.change the resolution to 1024x768 and try again

Actual Results:  
on eline contains all tabs, no title is visible

Expected Results:  
a dozen tab in 1st line with readable titles, other dozen in 2nd line, and so on.

I didn't find its original [searched hard], but I'd guess this is a duplicate,
so if you know the real one please link to it.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

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

Comment 2

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Unduping since this bug is in Firefox::TabbedBrowser, and a direct request for a single item which I could not find a duplicate of. The other bug is a more general bug that got morphed...

uiwanted: this could be a great improvement, and also follows os styles. My suggestion would be to keep the current behavior by default, but enable expanding the tabbar to make it multi-line. This is similar to the windows taskbar.

Comment 3

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Attachment: userChrome.css to enable this for Firefox 3.6 on Windows (no JS required)

Comment 5

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

This bug will complicate the UI and break a lot of things. Instead Bug 597564 should be fixed.

Comment 6

[spammed.user]

Attachment: screenshot of an example