491291 - No close button for tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[SG]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

I have lots of tabs (more than 10) open.
I could not find close button on the inactive tabs.
Close button is there only on active tab.

When number of open tabs reduced to less than 10, close buttons on inactive tabs started appearing.

Wish to have close buttons on all open tabs irrespective of whether they are inactive or active.

Screen resolution: 1280x1024.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start new instance of firefox.
2. Open around 10 (or more) tabs
Actual Results:  
No close button for open inactive tabs.

Expected Results:  
Each tab should have a close button

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is the expected behavior, as the number of tabs increases the tab button is only shown for the active tab. This behavior can be modified http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons

Comment 3

[Alex Riesen]

Actually the behavior of buttons disappearing after 10th tab *can not* be modified.

This is what is the problem here. Either more than 10 tabs with buttons, or way to tell the UI: "yes, I do want all tabs with close buttons. I have a 7680×4800 panel, and I damn well know it can present proud 100 tabs, all with bells and whistles of my choosing".