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Not Showing Tab Close Buttons When Many Tabs Open

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johnywhy
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This setting does not work if many tabs are open: browser.tabs.closeButtons

Setting explained here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons

Problem is explained in this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/844549?e=es&as=aaq

This is WRONG. If my setting is 'show close buttons on all tabs', then firefox SHOULD show close buttons on all tabs. No matter how many tabs I have open.

I now have only 6 tabs open, with plenty of room for a close button on each tab. But no close button is displayed.

What's the point of this setting if it does not do what it's supposed to do?

Is there a way to show the close button on ALL tabs, even if many are open?

Thanks

This setting does not work if many tabs are open: browser.tabs.closeButtons Setting explained here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons Problem is explained in this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/844549?e=es&as=aaq This is WRONG. If my setting is 'show close buttons on all tabs', then firefox SHOULD show close buttons on all tabs. No matter how many tabs I have open. I now have only 6 tabs open, with plenty of room for a close button on each tab. But no close button is displayed. What's the point of this setting if it does not do what it's supposed to do? Is there a way to show the close button on ALL tabs, even if many are open? Thanks

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dumdidadida
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Hi,

You can also try to lower the value of browser.tabs.tabClipWidth.

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Are you aware that you can close a Tab by middle-click on it?

John99
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Note also the tabs are designed so that the close button remains in the same place. If you click to close a tab the next close button aligns, so it is quicker clicking away in one place than it is moving the mousepointer, when you need to close adjacent tabs.

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Uh, John - don't the tabs remain fixed until the cursor is moved a bit? Or maybe that is just a feature of the tabstrip on Windows? IIRC, that came about in Firefox 10 or 11.

cor-el
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Usually (if you haven't changed prefs) the tabs will only snap in position (i.e fill the tab bar) if you move the mouse pointer off the tab bar.

John99
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I am thinking of the fact that IIRC there was a change so that the tab width does not immediately change and so the close button lines up. I think that still applies to Windows and Ubuntu.

Probably bug 465086 - When closing a tab, other tabs should not resize until cursor leaves toolbar region

There is also keyboard shortcut to jump to some of the tabs but I am not sure when that works keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly_windows-tabs