When I first saw tabs shrink in Firefox 58a I thought it's a nasty bug and I started reporting it to Bugzilla. I found this thread and I'm glad this negative behaviour is open to discussion.
As soon as I read it's possible I have used 'browser.tabs.tabMinWidth' to 'fix' the change. I have changed the numbers a bit and 95 plays nice with me. This is how I see this: 1. I use many tabs (200+). If all tabs have the width of 50, then there's only the favicon shown. Which, as already noted by others, will be the same for many tabs. Not to mention that some sites don't have a favicon, so they will all look the same. Not to mention that this way all tabs look similar or almost the same as pinned tabs. 2. Before FF 57 I was using "Faviconize tab" add-on (it doesn't work with FF57 any more because of WebExtensions). It enables to select the tab and make it shrink to favicon size only (and also expand). That addon was super useful and I would welcome this kind of default behaviour. That way the user can choose how large the tabs should be. Furthermore, if they want some tabs large and some small, they can have them. 3. I'm reading here that some people find tab scrolling to the side disorienting. I disagree. It's much more useful than a new row (or rows!) of tabs because that one takes screen estate. 4. I'm also reading here that other people find weird that the drop-down tab arrow is not visible with a smaller number of tabs and shows up only after some 10+ tabs are open. I'm one of those, too. Always visible would be preferable. 5. I also agree that tab changes should be based on an experiment focused on heavy tabs users and not just on a gut feeling. 6. Since we're debating long-term changes to tab behaviour I would use this place to suggest nested tabs or a tree of tabs in the tab row. Right now, one tab means one web site. I'm proposing that one tab could mean a drop down menu of user-grouped tabs (websites). This way there would be more space available for tabs and users could have some tab grouping. There are some addons, but they all do this in the sidebar which i use for different purpose. 7. Also, speaking long-term, I welcome Containter tabs. I was sceptic at first but after I tried them they're very useful and easy to use. Also, visually distinguishable from the rest of tabs. I usually used Chrome before for having the second set of tabs open with a different account, but since my computer crashed a month ago, I haven't found a need even to install it. I just use a few Container tabs. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
