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

On 11-09-20 8:14 AM, Eddy Bruel wrote:
> 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?

Now that we have tab groups and tab scrolling, I don't see the point of 
hiding the close button anymore. If things get to the point of 
scrolling, it would be nice to trigger discovery of the tab groups feature.