577067 - Adjust default max tab width to match FF4 mockups

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[[not reading bugmail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100705 Minefield/4.0b2pre Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: 

It looks like the default on all platform mockups for maximum tab width is smaller than the current default.

This appears to be a cool 200px instead of 250px which was hardcoded in bug 574654. 

Need to update the base browser.css with this new tab UI style.



Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
.tabbrowser-tab {
  max-width: 250px !important;
}

Expected Results:  
.tabbrowser-tab {
  max-width: 200px !important;
}

Comment 1

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

It's 210px of width.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [::dao]]

What's the point of reducing the max width? This will degrade usability especially with the full title not being displayed in the title bar.

Comment 3

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

We are just following mockups. Someone from UX team should answer your question.

Comment 4

[David Naylor]

I guess you could argue there is a usability win in not having the tabs too wide. I mean, there is a reason for not having two tabs take up half the screen width each ... :)

Comment 5

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

The UX team actually wants to decrease the tab max-width.

The tentative mockups are tentative mockups.

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [::dao]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The UX team actually wants to decrease the tab max-width.

That's what this bug seems to ask for.

Comment 7

[[not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > The UX team actually wants to decrease the tab max-width.
> 
> That's what this bug seems to ask for.

Correct.  I don't care what the new size should be, but when we analyzed the mockups before, we were trying actually figure out what the new value should be, I thought it was 200, but I guess it should be 210, but whatever the new number, I opened this bug to get it updated.

Comment 8

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Since I'm considering this wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/New_Theme/Timeline as accurate one, this should be reopened. Current tabs are ridiculously long, which is more noticeably now that tabs are in title bar and bug 610561 is WONTFIX. Currently only FX4 has that long tabs, rest (IE9, Chrome and Opera) have them much shorter.
I have 15'6 laptop with 1368x768 resolution and 4 tabs are max. After that, tabs are beginning to shrink.

Comment 9

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

This seems to have been closed erroneously.

Comment 10

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Requesting to block beta 10.

Comment 11

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

This is basically only bug that needs to be fixed. Frank, can you "fix" it, please?

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Shorlander and his team need to provide guidance before anyone "fixes" anything here. Peter, cc'ing Frank isn't appropriate here because we're waiting on the UX team and either way this isn't going to happen for Firefox 4 (which is done.)

Comment 13

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

I talked with Alex about this and he agreed this shouldn't be closed, so I took that as confirmation. After all, Alex himself reopened this bug. I wouldn't do anything by myself without consultation with UX team.

Comment 14

[bogas04]

we have the longest tabs among all browsers , to streamline the GUI i think this bug does hold some importance