Open Bug 583299 Opened 14 years ago Updated 1 years ago

Too many pinned tabs go off (overflow) the tab strip, especially in small windows

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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

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(Reporter: tiago.morbus.sa, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100729 Minefield/4.0b3pre This is exactly what you get with all tabs on Chrome. And it sucks. I know it's a very unlikely situation, but I'll upload a screenshot that shows exactly what happens when you open many app tabs, too many for the width of the window. There should be either a limit to app tabs, or they should have a % max-width for the tabstrip and have scroll buttons as normal tabs do. Again, I'll upload a screenshot right away. Reproducible: Always
Attached image Screenshot of the problem (deleted) —
You just can't see either all the app tabs or the normal tabs (I have like 4 or something normal tabs and like 10 more app tabs).
Blocks: 563730
Blocks: pinnedtabs
No longer blocks: 563730
Maybe there should be a limit on the amount of app tabs a user can have. Or, we could have a scroller, like we do with normal tabs.
Users will likely have a strong preference as to how they use app tabs, and use cases will abound. We should make this as customizable as is reasonable. I like the thinking of doing a max-width (measured by some %), then scroll for any outside of that. However, some users might want to have a dozen app tabs, but only a few visible. If we do a simple max-width, the app tabstrip is likely going to be wider than they want. I think the best solution might be to add a grippie between the app tabstrip and the normal tabstrip so the user can size it as they want. The app tabstrip should have a min-width wide enough for two app tabs. Since resizing wouldn't be an option if the user has < 3 app tabs, no grippie until there are 3 or more.
The Tab toolbar is customizable so any plans you devise should not assume that the tab strip extents across the full width of the toolbar/window.
Version: unspecified → 3.6 Branch
cant we have separate "app"-tab scroll for apptabs , further apptabs wont be more than say 20...
This still happens in the latest Nightly, except it the toolbar below jitters and flashes.
Attached image Another screenshot on Nightly (deleted) —
Flickers between this and "normal" state
Comment on attachment 543642 [details] Another screenshot on Nightly Only happens when there are no "normal" tabs
Summary: Too many App tabs go off the tab strip → Too many pinned tabs go off the tab strip
Attached image Same issue on Firefox 62 (deleted) —
This is still an issue as of Firefox 62. It would be nice to have a scroll like Josh said before.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 7 → All
Priority: -- → P3
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Too many pinned tabs go off the tab strip → Too many pinned tabs go off (overflow) the tab strip, especially in small windows
Severity: normal → S3

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 8 duplicates.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.

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Duplicate of this bug: 1794486
Component: Theme → Tabbed Browser
Version: 3.6 Branch → Trunk
Duplicate of this bug: 1836431
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