583299 - Too many pinned tabs go off (overflow) the tab strip, especially in small windows

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

Description

[Tiago Sá]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100729 Minefield/4.0b3pre

This is exactly what you get with all tabs on Chrome. And it sucks.

I know it's a  very unlikely situation, but I'll upload a screenshot that shows exactly what happens when you open many app tabs, too many for the width of the window. There should be either a limit to app tabs, or they should have a % max-width for the tabstrip and have scroll buttons as normal tabs do.

Again, I'll upload a screenshot right away.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tiago Sá]

Attachment: Screenshot of the problem

You just can't see either all the app tabs or the normal tabs (I have like 4 or something normal tabs and like 10 more app tabs).

Comment 2

[Josh Tumath]

Maybe there should be a limit on the amount of app tabs a user can have. Or, we could have a scroller, like we do with normal tabs.

Comment 3

[Ethan Sisson]

Users will likely have a strong preference as to how they use app tabs, and use cases will abound. We should make this as customizable as is reasonable. I like the thinking of doing a max-width (measured by some %), then scroll for any outside of that. However, some users might want to have a dozen app tabs, but only a few visible. If we do a simple max-width, the app tabstrip is likely going to be wider than they want.

I think the best solution might be to add a grippie between the app tabstrip and the normal tabstrip so the user can size it as they want. The app tabstrip should have a min-width wide enough for two app tabs. Since resizing wouldn't be an option if the user has < 3 app tabs, no grippie until there are 3 or more.

Comment 4

[Ian Pottinger]

The Tab toolbar is customizable so any plans you devise should not assume that the tab strip extents across the full width of the toolbar/window.

Comment 5

[bogas04]

cant we have separate "app"-tab scroll for apptabs , further apptabs wont be more than say 20...

Comment 6

[Tim]

This still happens in the latest Nightly, except it the toolbar below jitters and flashes.

Comment 7

[Tim]

Attachment: Another screenshot on Nightly

Flickers between this and "normal" state

Comment 8

[Tim]

Comment on attachment 543642 [details]
Another screenshot on Nightly

Only happens when there are no "normal" tabs

Comment 11

[Antoine Turmel [:GeekShadow]]

Attachment: Same issue on Firefox 62

This is still an issue as of Firefox 62. It would be nice to have a scroll like Josh said before.

Comment 19

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 8 duplicates.
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Comment 20

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.