Closed Bug 301258 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

browser.tabs.forceHide: true doesn't work

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: greenshank, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If I set browser.tabs.forceHide to be true (either in user.js or via
about:config) and restart Firefox, the tab bar is hidden, and by looking in
about:config I can see that it's still true. But then if I type Ctrl-T (new tab)
the tab bar appears, and re-examining about:config shows that the setting has
flipped back to false.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See details.

Actual Results:  
Tab bar appears on Ctrl-T; forceHide gets reset to false.

Expected Results:  
Tab bar should stay hidden; forceHide should be unaffected.
This pref. is documented incorrectly in a lot of places. It's used internally by
tabbrowser to decide what to do; it's not used to pref. on/off the tab bar.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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