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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
hm. thanks for the answer. i might try out TMP, which i remember you mentioning before, but i don't think i want multiple rows of tabs, since i already have an extra toolbar (developper tools) which already reduces the size of the viewport. this can be a problem because sometimes i like to reduce the window vertically, to compare two pages or to keep an eye on something in the bottom part of my screen while i do something else in the top part (i really needa dual monitor display...). plus, when i said 20 tabs, that's a fairly conservative estimate...  i don't want to end up with so many rows of tabs the viewport is no longer visible at all... (yes i know that slows things down. i just can't help myself). |
As mentioned, how many rows tabs may expand to is configurable.
I have multiple toolbars as well, but most of them are hidden until I need them.
One thing you might want to explore is the Stylish extension, which I've also mentioned. Stylish lets you run arbitrary CSS based on application, site, or other criteria. There are a large number of "userstyles" available for Stylish, that can do things like automatically hide a toolbar, and reveal it on mouseover. I haven't seen one that auto-hides the Web Developer's toolbar, but it shouldn't be hard to modify an existing style to work with it.
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i do like tab scrolling, at least the way ff does it. ie7 is an example of very poor implementation of tabs, if you ask me. i rarely have many tabs open in it since i use it mostly for testing purposes, but it's not at all practical to navigate among tabs. especially since for some idiotic reason they've put a toolbar on the same level as the tabs (and although the toolbars are not locked, i can't seem to drag it anywhere else), so tab space is already limited.
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I was unsurprised that when IE finally got around to supporting tabbed browsing, their implementation was inferior to Firefox and Opera's.
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thanks for the explanation about portable ff 1.5, but no worries : i don't actually want to go back that far. 
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well, if you ever hear of a way to prevent the tab auto-scroll behavior, do let me know, i'd be interested. if you want to test, it always happens on MR with the forum spy, but unless i am mistaken does not *necessarily* occur on other sites... i'll check tomorrow, if i think of it, and confirm. it's getting late here so i'm going to bed now.
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I'll look. No promises. It may be a quirk of how MR handles the spy.
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Dennis