Wednesday, February 4, 2009

How To Get Rid of The Annoying Scroll Tab Button

One of the most annoying feature of Firefox is that when you start opening more tabs it does not reduce the tab width appreciably. Instead it shows a scrollbar so you can scroll to find your tabs. With lots of tabs, it is mighty inconvenient and hard to navigate using the scrollbar. Suppose at some point of time you have a lot of websites to surf through and you have opened all of them with tabs. How annoying will it be to press the scroll button every time you need to go to one website from another? It would be much easier if Firefox reduced the width of tabs to lower than 100px instead. To solve this problem and get rid of the scrollbar here is a simple trick:

1. Go to Fireox address bar
2. Type about:config, press ENTER
3. At the filter bar, type browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
4. Right click on the result displayed and click Modify
5. Change it to 0 (by default its 100). You are done.

Note: You can reduce the minimum width to 50px, 60px, anything you like. The lesser the number is, more tabs can show without having to use dreaded scroll bar.

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