GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310180
Tabs should get narrower when it runs out of room
Last modified: 2005-09-08 20:25:53 UTC
When there are too many tabs to fit on the tab bar, the notebook should make each tab narrower to fit, instead of adding scroll buttons like it does now. Reasons: * So I can tell at a glance how many tabs there are. Right now in Epiphany, I can't tell if I have six tabs open or sixteen. Did I close that page or not? I don't know! * Opera does it this way and I like it better. * So the tabs stay where you put them. With the scrolling behaviour, a tab can be on the left side one minute and then on the right side. By making all the tabs fit at once, a tab will not move around. I don't know what to do when there are lots of tabs, like 20. However, is that really a problem? Here's why not: * Many web sites have icons so you can tell the tabs apart. * There should be other ways to access the tabs, like the Tabs menu. * The user chose to open 20 tabs. They can deal with it. If you think bug 110540 is better: I really don't like the idea of multiple rows. Whenever a tab opens or closes, you are completely disoriented because the rows shift around or the tabs shuffle themselves.
I definately agree that this is better than multiple rows or the current scrolling mess.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153792 ***