567525 - tab user interface wastes space

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Jérôme Bouat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100402 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4

When using only 1 tab, the tabs bar is wasting space into the user interface main window.

Currently I haven't enought space to read the content of my mails as I used to do with the previous version of Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Thunderbird could hide the tabs bar when there is only 1 tab.

An other solution would be to allow the end user to disable the tabs bar.

Comment 1

[Jérôme Bouat]

Attachment: screenshot of the main window, the wasted space is surrounded in red

Note that there is no more space to read my messages into the message pane.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

there is a hidden preference mail.tabs.autoHide - set this to true and tabs are hidden when only exist.  install viewabout extension will give you access to config via the view menu. (also, compactheader add-on can also save you room in the message pane.)

Comment 3

[Jérôme Bouat]

Thanks for those information. I think the end user shouldn't have to know them.

I added a comment about this issue into the thread of bug #533930.