So, with google being who they are wanting to create a more and more hostile environment using chrome is increasingly becoming more meh.

But no other browser really has the ok feel to it. And certain let’s call it quirks to others make them feel just meh and annoying to use because of how used i am to chrome, and I’ve tried.

And I was hoping that the one with Firefox, could be changed, or “fixed.”

Feel free to call it weird but when you’re used to something for more than a decade it’s not easy to change, and I’ve tried FF on occasion, but this just makes me unable to stick.

Open tabs. I want to see them all, always. I want to be able to open and open and open, and all that happens, is like in chrome, (and now edge I believe? I’ve not seen it behave like FF) is that it just squeezes the tabs thinner and thinner, and, in the end, you can barely click them.

the behavior in FF seems to open a certain amount, then start pushing them “off screen” accessible through ‘drop down’, you know what I mean.

simply put, how can I make Firefox, not do that, and just let me open freely, create an awful mess that probably is harder to navigate?

It all probably sounds very counterintuitive but as mentioned after 10+ years of that being a feature I really do love, being unable to find that in settings or any other way seemingly to do this, is it possible for FF to do this at all somehow?

I’ve tried googling and I only seem to find people wanting the opposite, which is of course understandable but, people are different :P

  • @kuneho
    11•1 year ago

    well, you can change the minimum width of the tabs to 50px. that’s a hard limit, but it’s pretty small. Needless to say if you have a gazillion tabs open, soon enough 50px too could be big enough to make it scroll.

    For changing the min. width of the tabs, go to about:config then set the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth value to 50 or higher.

    For smaller tabs or different behaviour, you will probably need to find either a plugin that removes the scrolling (there’s a chance you may find one) or do some CSS modifications on the browser’s UI. I can imagine that way also you can tweak the tabbar to your liking.