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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Now fix the fact that I have too slowly scroll horizontally through all my tabs because they are individually too wide for the number I have open.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a dropdown next to the tab strip that shows all the tabs (and their titles/names) in a dropdown scrolling list.

Alternatively, the omnibar can search tabs, for the specific one you're looking for. Ctrl+Pageup/Pagedown (and Ctrl+tab) can also fine scrub through the tab strip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I know. It's still the major thing I miss since switching away from chrome. And the extensions available to solve this are severely lacking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can also fix it with a custom userChrome.css, which lets you set the min and max tab width before they begin to scroll.

In other words you can make it so that if one or two tabs are open they take all the space and the more you open they all shrink equally up to a point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

librewolf, but should work on firefox.

Here is mine, it is very keyboard driven so it might not work for you, but you can copy the tab width settings: https://pastebin.com/f5AvQuJu

https://streamable.com/wj7iri

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To mitigate this you can go to about:config (write it in the address bar) and search for a setting called browser.tabs.tabMinWidth, I usually change the number to 20 (the default minimum width is like 70) and tabs are allowed to become roughly as narrow as in chrome. It's a much simpler and stabler option compared to custom CSS