If you're an avid tabbed browsing fan and upgraded to one of the Firefox 2 betas or release candidates in previous weeks, you undoubtedly noticed that the new version does tabs a little differently, giving tabs a fixed minimum width and displaying scroll arrows at the ends of the tab bar if you run out of space. This isn't a bad behavior, but compared to Firefox 1 which would show dozens of tabs all scrunched next to eachother without making you scroll, Firefox 2, which maxes out at a dozen or so when you've got your window maximized at 1280x1024 (and who maximizes anymore, really?), seems a tad limited. Of course, there's a way to change this behavior if you're willing to poke around, and
Lifehacker gives you the stop-by-step how-to. In short, you go to about:config and change the
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth setting to something smaller, or 0 if you want to revert back to the Firefox 1 functionality.
Tags: browsertips, firefox, firefox 2, Firefox2, mozilla, tabbed browsing, TabbedBrowsing, tabminwidth, tabs, tip, tweak, width
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Subscribe to commentsAtanas BoevOct 19th 2006 3:15AM
How about zooming-on-hover tabs, Mac OS style?
ChadOct 18th 2006 5:28PM
Now tell me how to get rid of the close button on EVERY tab. I really prefer it the other way around.
BrianSOct 18th 2006 11:37PM
Agreed. I want to know how to get back the one 'close button' on the right (which has been replaced by the 'tab drop-down' list). Until that happens, Im sticking with the old Firefox (or maybe even going with IE - argh!)
MedlirOct 19th 2006 5:52PM
Hooray for the Tab Mix Plus extension.
rikardoOct 19th 2006 8:53AM
if you want to get rid of the close button :
In about:config change the value broser.tabs.closeButtons to
1 -close button only on active tab
2 -on each tab
3 -dont show any close button