On 06/10/2017 17:05, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 10/3/17 5:18 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
So just to make sure I understand the change (and this is a
theoretical point, because I haven't had a chance to try the change
yet)...
OK, now I have had a chance to try it.
When set to the new 50px default, I see 1 letter of title or less (less,
because the entire second half of the letter is faded out badly). This
makes tabs more or less unusable for me. :(
Agree totally with this. I had seen the beginning of this discussion
before I updated to a Nightly with the change, so I knew it was coming
(and what the rationale was), but I was quite shocked at how unusable I
found the browser with narrow tabs.
No doubt I'd get used to it somehow if there were no way it could be
changed, but I don't think I'd ever be happy with it. I've reset mine to
100, though I can see that if I didn't have lots of bugzilla tabs open
(where I want to see the whole bug number), I might be OK with about 80.
Aside: IMO, a more interesting UI experiment than shrinking the tab
width would be a built-in option to put a tab-strip on the side of the
window, instead of across the top. Yes, I know about Tree-Style Tabs and
similar add-ons, but I tend to run something as close as possible to a
"vanilla" browser configuration, so that I'm getting a similar
experience to the majority of our users. If we had "Tabs at the side"
(or something) in the browser preferences (or in Customize?), I suspect
a significant number of users might discover and like it, whereas if it
requires finding an add-on, most people never will.
JK
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