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Bug 665537 - Tabs should scale their width, avoid tab scrolling
Tabs should scale their width, avoid tab scrolling
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 330676
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
: 465661 518454 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 330676
Blocks: 167693
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-04 11:53 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2015-01-19 15:45 UTC
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Description William Jon McCann 2011-12-04 11:53:37 UTC 
It seems that our tabs have a fixed width which means that only 6 can be displayed on my reasonably large screen and the rest scroll off the sides. This isn't ideal for a few reasons. The first is that it basically ruins the main advantage of using tabs which is having pages at your fingertips.

Firefox and Chrome seem to scale the tabs to fit and remove the close button when the space becomes limited.
Safari on iPad seems to limit the number of open tabs to 9.
Comment 1 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2012-01-24 09:01:15 UTC 
Jon, this was reported long ago as a GTK+ problem:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330676

Shouldn't we try to fix this at the GTK+ level so every application behaves the same, or at least has the API to behave the same?

We could write a simple hack for size-request of tabs, but I guess it's better for the user experience to fix GTK+ itself. What do you think?
Comment 2 gxoptg 2012-08-16 16:47:32 UTC 
Of cource it's better to fix GTK+, but till it isn't fixed, we must create a little hack. User won't be interested that it's GTK+ bug, he wants normal tabs working.
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-10-07 04:28:33 UTC 
*** Bug 518454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-10-07 04:31:14 UTC 
Bug #167693 is basically a requirement for "group newly created tabs close to the current one", but it might be a WONTFIX if we (finally) get autoshrinking tabs.

John, feel free to put Epiphany's #1 source of complaints out of its misery once and for all.
Comment 5 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-10-07 04:58:53 UTC 
*** Bug 465661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Frédéric Parrenin 2015-01-19 09:20:05 UTC 
I confirm this bug is still present in 3.14.1.
This is a real annoyance to have to scroll the tabs.
And I am not sure it is easily discoverable for a beginner.
Comment 7 Michael Catanzaro 2015-01-19 15:45:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 330676 ***