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

I LOVE how the close button is hidden in Firefox. Remember, you can close a tab with a middle-click.

I filed a bug report with Chromium because they do not hide the close button when many tabs are opened.

One of the things I find is that when many tabs are opened, it is easy to accidentally click the close button because the tab size is so small. I think hiding the close button is ideal. It allows you to click the tab and not have to be so precise as to miss the close button.  And middle-click gives you the option of closing with a single-click.

> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:14:01 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Removing the close tab button when too many tabs are open (FF vs	Chrome behavior)
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 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?
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