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

On 9/20/11 4:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/09/20 14:14 (GMT+0200) Eddy Bruel composed:
>
>> 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
>
> Minimum tab width in Mozillas are adjustable via userChrome.css with
> .tabbrowser-tab. Mine are set to as little as 2.4em.
>
>> 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.
>
> My close tab _button_ never disappears:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Moz/ff6vff36-1920x1200x120.png
>
> Of course, it can only be used on the active tab. On those rare occasions I
> want to close a non-active tab, I use its context menu (2 clicks to close).
> Most keyboard shortcuts to me make little enough sense to remember, so rarely
> get used. About the only ones I use are PgUp/PgDn to switch to adjacent tabs.
>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to raise the number of tabs that can be opened in
>> Firefox before the close tab button disappeared?
>
> id
Oh I see, looks like I've been mixing up terminology. When you say the 
close tab button, you mean the button on the right side of the tab bar. 
What I was talking about is the button (if I can call it that) on the 
tab itself. I don't know what the proper name for that is, but thats the 
one that disappears for me when there are more than 11 tabs (with 
setting as described in my earlier post). Would changing the minimum tab 
width affect that behavior as well?