On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:40:13PM +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote: > 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.
I, for one, would like vertical tabs. As in, rotated tabs, with text that reads vertically. Side note: it's sad that side-bar based tab addons now have to waste a large portion of vertical space because of the (large) side-bar header. Plus, they can't push the toolbar like they used to, taking the whole height of the window. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
