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How to change tab size in TB?

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Henrik R.
Henrik R.
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I have a lot of open tabs in TB, so TB has made each tab very short, so I can only see the first 6 letters of the Subject:-line of each message. That is not very practical! But in Edit -> Preferences I can't seem to find a way to make the tabs longer, in order to see a larger part of the Subject. I have also tried searching for "change tab size" in addons.thunderbird.net to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

I have a lot of open tabs in TB, so TB has made each tab very short, so I can only see the first 6 letters of the Subject:-line of each message. That is not very practical! But in Edit -> Preferences I can't seem to find a way to make the tabs longer, in order to see a larger part of the Subject. I have also tried searching for "change tab size" in addons.thunderbird.net to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

Solución elegida

TRy the following: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General tab click on 'Config Editor' button

In top search type: tabs Look for these lines:

  • mail.tabs.tabClipWidth
  • mail.tabs.tabMinWidth

Double click on each line to open a window allowing you to edit the value. Set each one to a value of 200 click on OK close window top right x

Restart Thunderbird.

This should force a wider width on a tab and force the tab scrollbar to operate showing fewer tabs for same width of window, but each tab should display more letters.

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Toad-Hall
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Solución elegida

TRy the following: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General tab click on 'Config Editor' button

In top search type: tabs Look for these lines:

  • mail.tabs.tabClipWidth
  • mail.tabs.tabMinWidth

Double click on each line to open a window allowing you to edit the value. Set each one to a value of 200 click on OK close window top right x

Restart Thunderbird.

This should force a wider width on a tab and force the tab scrollbar to operate showing fewer tabs for same width of window, but each tab should display more letters.

Henrik R.
Henrik R. Autor de la pregunta
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Thank you very much! So far I only changed 'tabMinWidth'. That seems to solve the problem.