906313 - Always get tabs, even though "don't load tabs until selected" box is checked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 877479

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Eric Pavlak]

Attachment: firefox tabs.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130730113002

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Firefox upgrade 23.01. Tabs setting as per attached.


Actual results:

Tabs began to appear by default, and I cannot get rid of them.


Expected results:

Tabs should not have appeared unless deliberated selected,

Comment 1

[Eric Pavlak]

Opening a new tab shows recent history, when it should be blank.

Comment 2

[mjh563]

The option to hide the tab bar has been removed in Firefox 23 (the setting was called "Always show the tab bar"). Is that what you mean?

Comment 3

[Eric Pavlak]

Comparing versions 22 and 23, yes. There is no way to hide the tab bar. I am very sorry to see that function go. 

I do a lot of internet research. I never use tabs. I prefer windows side by side on my large monitor. I find tabs annoying, and disable them whenever I can in all applications, including the Adobe Creative Suite. But that my preference.

Anyway, thank you for looking into this issue, and for all your work on Firefox. I have been a user and occasional tester since Mozilla 0.7.

Comment 4

[Eric Pavlak]

Tried to fix it in the about:config file with no results;
Then I found:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-with-one-tab/