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Decreasing the size of Firefox’s tabs

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Firefox 2.0? Ho-hum. After all, how can such a great browser impress us further? But a spellchecker’s there, & that’s always good; and a feed reader, which unfortunately didn’t live up to the standards of Sage.

The scrolling tabs need some time to get used to. The tabs are also wider. This means that it only takes a few tabs to be open for it to start scrolling — not fun for the multi-tasker in you.

There is a way to decrease the size of the tabs, though:

  1. Enter the following in the address bar:
    about:config

  2. Look for browser.tabs.tabminWidth & doubeclick it.

  • Enter desired size. The default is 100 pixels. You can set it to 80 or 90.

    • Comments

    4 responses to “Decreasing the size of Firefox’s tabs”

    1. jeray palanca Avatar
      jeray palanca

      hey chette! nice stuff you wrote here! very useful! played with all the config options. interesting!

      Reply
    2. LilyP Avatar
      LilyP

      I dont like version 2 of Firefox. It made my XP slower. Anyone knows how to fix it?

      Reply
    3. melissa co Avatar
      melissa co

      How do you change close button of firefox?

      Reply
    4. Dave Avatar
      Dave

      Hey i just saw your post and thought i would take the time to respond to you even though its like way out dated, but someone new might find it helpful.

      To only have the close x option on the active tab go to the about:config and go to
      (browser.tabs.closeButtons) and change it to 0. I found it here close to the bottom.

      http://forums.getswiftfox.com/viewtopic.php?p=481&sid=5870a74bf5a41729bcc20ebafc56dbd4

      Reply

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