Maybe if you use browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 80 instead, it can make it work better than 75 because, with 75, it still loses some extra information.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/04/2017 12:43 PM, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > >> Om my system ( retina macbook pro ) 70 is starting to look like a better >> compromise for tab readability. >> > I think 70 is better than 50, but I noticed that if a foreground tab > starts to play audio and we need to show the audio icon alongside the tab > close icon, the 70px width is actually not enough and the tab pushes its > width out a bit! I think we need to consider a minimum of 75px instead. > > But still I think this is a serious degradation for existing users who > have many tabs in terms of the readability of the titles, but we can > mitigate it by perhaps reducing the padding. For example, see this > screenshot: > > https://ehsanakhgari.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/tabminwi > dth-narrowpaddings.png > > It shows at above browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 100 and below > browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75 with the paddings in each tab reduced by 13 > pixels. There is very little reduction to the amount of space available > for the tab title if we do something like this, I think... > > Cheers, > Ehsan > > >> How I have been testing this: >> >> * change the value to a specific number, say 70 >> * open enough tabs so that overflow triggers, then close two tabs, >> then open a tab ( we retain overflow until 2 tabs have been closed! ) >> * count the number of tabs opened >> * open chrome and open that number of tabs >> * compare the utility of each browser >> >> Jeff >> >> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Marco Bonardo <mbona...@mozilla.com >> <mailto:mbona...@mozilla.com>> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Jeff Griffiths >> <jgriffi...@mozilla.com <mailto:jgriffi...@mozilla.com>> wrote: >> > 1. do you prefer the existing behaviour or the new behaviour? >> > 2. if you prefer a value for this pref different than 50 or 100, >> what >> > is it? Why? >> >> I prefer being able to see a minimum part of the title, because I very >> often have multiple tabs open on the same page (many bugzilla, many >> searchfox, many crash-stats) and now I cannot distinguish them at all. >> But at the same time, I never liked much the scrolling behavior, at a >> point that when my tabs start scrolling, I begin a cleaning taks to >> close some of them. >> Looks like I'm unhappy in both cases, sorry. If I'd really have to >> pick, I'd probably would like to see the first 10 chars of the title. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> firefox-dev mailing list >> firefox-...@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
