324789 - [trunk] Close buttons on tabs: new prefs don't seem to work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

When there are more than 7 tabs on the tabbar, the close crosses on the inactive tabs disappear. When I make a new pref called browser.tabs.minTabWidth and I set it to an integer value of 30, this makes no difference. The crosses still disappear when there are more than 7 tabs.

I tried also the other pref: when I set browser.tabs.disableBackgroundClose to true, the close crosses on background tabs don't disappear, even if I restart the browser.

Tried with 1.9a1_2006012517 build.

Comment 1

[Thomas Stache]

The pref is likely not called minTabWidth, read bug 308396 comment #48.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

browser.tabs.tabClipWidth is working now, pfff, thanks.
Still struggling with browser.tabs.disableBackgroundClose which was present in about:config so it's not possible that I added an invisible space by accident :?

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

The disable background close pref just prevents a background tab from being closed by clicking on the close button in the background. If you click on a close button in the background the tab is focused and then you need to click on the close button again to close the tab. 

I was under the same impression you were the first time I played with the pref. It took me a little while to figure out what the pref did.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I that case the riddles are resolved and the bug can be closed.