603798 - our tabs look great on XP but don't fit as well with Windows 7 and aero

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Attachment: tabs look better flatter and taller on win7 aero.

I think we should flatten our tabs some because right now they sort of buckle up off the otherwise mostly flat aero glass world of Windows 7.  It looks great on XP but doesn't fit in as well on 7.  Also, the tab strip is a super short toolbar compared to most other Win7 toolbras (including our other toolbars) yet tabs are a really heavily used. I propose we make them somewhat taller but not quite as tall as IE7's. Flatter, taller, glassier.

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

I was pretty sure you filed something like this before, Asa, or maybe just wrote Stephen an email, and he said that it wasn't going to be changed at this point.

Stephen: can you confirm? You should feel free to resolve this as WONTFIX, or if you think we should do it sometime after Firefox 4, mark it as future and perhaps remove it from blocking bug 544820

Comment 2

[Stephen Horlander [:shorlander]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Stephen: can you confirm? You should feel free to resolve this as WONTFIX, or
> if you think we should do it sometime after Firefox 4, mark it as future and
> perhaps remove it from blocking bug 544820

This is something I plan to revisit post-Firefox 4 so setting to future.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(The "Future" target milestone tends to never be reset even if the originally intended milestone is reached or passed. No milestone at all is less confusing.)

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'm calling this fixed by Frank's changes in bug 638526

w00t!

Comment 5

[Vlad [QA]]

Verified fixed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110404 Firefox/4.2a1pre