Re: Removing the close tab button when too many tabs are open (FF vs Chrome behavior)

On 20.09.2011 07:14, Eddy Bruel wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

> When I have too many open tabs, the close tab button disappears
> for every tab except the one currently being displayed. If I want to
> close another tab, I have to click on it first before I can close it.
> Obviously, it is kind of annoying to have to go through this extra
> step.
> 
> Now, this behavior is the same in both Firefox and Chrome, except that
> in the latter I can have way more tabs open before the close tab button
> disappears (on my Macbook Pro, with 1680x1050 display resolution,
> and both browsers maximized, I can have about 11 open tabs in
> Firefox, and about 26 open tabs in Chrome).
> 
> For smaller window sizes, the number of tabs I can have open is even
> smaller. It regularly happens to me that the close tab button
> disappears in Firefox with only 6 tabs open. In Chrome, on the other
> hand, I rarely, if ever, run into this problem.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice to raise the number of tabs that can be opened in
> Firefox before the close tab button disappeared?

What version of FF and do you have any addons related to tab behavior?
This behavior isn't present in my FF 7 latest beta.

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