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Decreasing the size of Firefox’s tabs | Print |  E-mail
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Friday, 03 November 2006

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

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

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

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jeray palanca said:

hey chette! nice stuff you wrote here! very useful! played with all the config options. interesting!
November 04, 2006

LilyP said:

I dont like version 2 of Firefox. It made my XP slower. Anyone knows how to fix it?
December 25, 2006

melissa co said:

How do you change close button of firefox?
December 29, 2006

Dave said:

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
February 28, 2007

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