346141 - Tabbed Browsing Overflow Handling Makes Tabbed Browsing a Pain

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 319777

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Camino implements tabbed browsing overflow handling the same way Safari does. It can be pretty painful, and I even have a 24" monitor. 

The problems with the menu include:

- once I open more than N (N=max visible tabs) tabs, if the active tab is in the overflow set, I can't see the active tab anymore, or any of the tabs around it. 
- this sort of UI sort of prevents tab drag&drop, unless you want to do drag and drop into the overflow menu, which pink has told me numerous times is considered a UI abomination by mac folk ;-)

The problem is I can't tell you for sure what the best solution is. Firefox is trying another solution that fixes these issues for 2.0, but only time will tell how usable it is. I recommend watching Firefox and see if its approach turns out to be usable. 

What I know right now is that the current solution is annoying, and so I'm filing this bug to let y'all know. ;-)

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ben, isn't this basically adding the functionality that's being implemented in bug 319777? See also, bug 338983.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I'm not sure that the in-progress code will fix all of point 1 ("I can't see the active tab anymore"), but the last Fx build with scrolling tabs also had that issue--you could still scroll such that the tab widget for the active tab was hidden :P

At some point I should file that bug to let y'all know ;)



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 319777 ***