Zoom Tabs for Firefox (like windows vista toolbar)
Daniel Rezende
I'm no programmer and do not have any idea how to put this together so
I'm tossing up the idea in hopes that someone will grab it.
Firefox 1.x had no minimum size for tabs and so they simply became so
small that you could not read any of them. Now in 2.0 they have minimum
sizes but you have to scroll down after a few too many tabs.
Why cant we just have the small tabs and with a mouseover you can zoom
in on the tab to check it out.
Is this possible?
-- Dan
Aggro
> Why cant we just have the small tabs and with a mouseover you can zoom
> in on the tab to check it out.
Small tabs:
1. Type: about:config to your address bar
2. Type browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to filter
3. Change value to something like 20 or smaller if you like
"Zoom"
Put your mouse over the tab and a tooltip text should appear telling you
the title for that tab.
Or you do you really want visual effect?
David E. Ross
When I have so many tabs open that I only see one letter of the title,
SeaMonkey gives me a tooltip with the complete title whenever I move my
cursor over the tab. This is without any tab-related extension and
without setting any preference via about:config. If Firefox doesn't do
this, it might be a bug.
However, please note that many Web developers fail to provide meaningful
page titles. This is the heading you see at the very top of your
browser window while viewing the page (which is why that area is called
the title bar), not some title within the content of the page. The
labels on the tabs are taken from the page titles. Thus, if there is no
meaningful page title, you will not see a meaningful tab label. In some
cases, the page title might be completely omitted (a violation of the
HTML specification), in which case the page's URL is used to label the
tab.
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Eric H. Jung
There must be an extension that already adds that capability.
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Teester
Eric H. Jung wrote:
> Ideally, we'd see a thumbnail when hovering over inactive tabs :)
> There must be an extension that already adds that capability.
>
There is!
Tab Preview
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/
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HJ van Rantwijk
You don't need extensions for that:
browser.tabs.tooltippreview.enable (boolean) true
browser.tabs.tooltippreview.width (integer) 300
/HJ
Gijs Kruitbosch ("Hannibal")
Umm, that only works in the (SeaMonkey) Suite. And the OP was talking
about Firefox, where you do need an extension such as Tab Preview to do
this.
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Philip Chee
> Ideally, we'd see a thumbnail when hovering over inactive tabs :)
> There must be an extension that already adds that capability.
SeaMonkey 1.1b does that without any extensions.
Phil
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