577986 - browser.tabs.tabMinWidth doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 574654

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[kiwiplant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.6

Setting browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a smaller number should make tabs less wide. It doesn't do this anymore.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a smaller number
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Actual Results:  
The tab width is still very wide. Doesn't shrink the size.

Expected Results:  
Would think the tab width should be smaller like in previous firefox versions.

Comment 1

[Cork]

The settings has a min value documented at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.tabMinWidth

So this most likly is WFM or invalid: "Note that due to the design of the tabbar, the minimum width for a tab is 38px, so using a value less than 38 will not have any effect."

Comment 2

[kiwiplant]

A value of browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 50 works in Firefox 3.6.6, but does not shrink tab width in the 4.0b2 nightly builds.  It quit working around 1 - 2 weeks ago. It was ok in 3.7pre series and possibly 4.0b1.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

tabMinWidth was removed in bug 574654