Firefox Hack: Turn Off Tab Scrolling

Sarah Perez on October 22nd, 2007

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If you tend to open a lot of tabs in your Firefox browser, then you know that when you get too many open, you end up having to scroll to see the tabs that have gone off-screen. I’ve had enough of this, so I found a way to turn off the scrolling feature altogether. In the address bar, type about:config and choose the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth key. The default value is 100, which means the minimum width of a tab is 100 pixels. You can modify this number, so the tabs get smaller, which would allow for more on the screen before the scrolling feature kicks in. But if you want to disable scrolling, you enter 0 to turn the feature off entirely.

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2 Responses to “Firefox Hack: Turn Off Tab Scrolling”

  1. Hey Now Sarah,
    Handy Tip, good to know. I like Firefox for the nice addins like yslow & firebug.
    Thanks for the info,
    Catto

  2. Thank you so much for posting this. That scroll thing has been annoying me for ages, it seems.

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