328325 - Opening multiple tabs causes right-most tab in tab bar to overlay the close window "X"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[markbwise]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Opening multiple tabs causes the icon and frame of the right-most tab in tab bar to overlay the close window "X".  This also happens if the main window is sized down after multiple tabs are opened.  It's difficult for user to select last tab or use mouse to close tab(s).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 20+ tabs.  Size down window horizontally.
Actual Results:  
Right-most tab in tab bar overprints close window "X"

Expected Results:  
Tabs that cannot be completely rendered are pushed out of frame. They are reachable by a right double nav. arrow (>>) as for the bookmark toolbar.  Close window "X" is always fully visible.

The max number of tabs to cause the problem depends on the horizontal size of main window, so it's less of a problem for large monitors.

Comment 1

[Ali Hesammohseni]

The problem also exists in version 1.5.0.6 under windows XP, so I suppose it is not dependent on OS-X-specific code,though I don't see a chevron and in fact the display gets very crippled and its response depends on the direction at which the mouse pointer approaches the "close tab" button.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tab functionality changed on *trunk* and have apparently eliminated this problem - probably bug 318168
WFM windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060629 Minefield/3.0a1

if you agree it's fixed on trunk for mac please close this bug resolved as WORKSFORME

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[markbwise]

Sorry, forgot this was hanging out there.  v2.0.0.4 is fine.