On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 11:18:14 PM UTC+2, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/3/17 4:36 PM, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > > 2. it sets the default value of the tab to 50, previously this value > > was hard-coded at 100. > > Jeff, > > So just to make sure I understand the change (and this is a theoretical > point, because I haven't had a chance to try the change yet)... Right > now, the min tab width is 100. This contains the following pieces: > > 1) 18px of horizontal padding (on the .tab-content). > 2) 16px of favicon. > 3) 6px of favicon right-margin. > 4) 60px of space for the page title. > > With the new setup, just looking at the patch, the main thing that > changes is that the page title space drops from 60px to 10px when enough > tabs are open, because none of the other values change, right? > > Right now, at 60px, I can see 7-10 chars in a tab title. This is > sometimes (but not always) enough for me to make sense of what I'm > looking at when the favicon is not helpful. For example, for bugzilla > bugs I can see the whole bug number. > > In the new setup is sounds like I will see 1-2 chars. At that point, > it's not immediately clear to me that there's any value to not just > setting the min-width to "40px" and allowing all the title text to > disappear altogether. There is definite value in not going below the > "keep the favicon entirely visible" value, of course. > > > We looked into this and I generally agree with the > > comments: chrome's "infinite tabs visible" approach results in a much > > higher usable/visible > > I think there's a difference here between "usable" and "visible".... > And yes, I understand that I can just set the pref as needed. > > > One aspect that I would like to stress about this change: most > > existing Firefox users will never see it, because they are unlikely to > > open m,ore than 10 tabs at any one time. > > Just fwiw, at the 100px width, tabstrip scrolling kicks in for me at 9 > tabs. It's possible that most of our users have wider windows than > mine, of course. > > I will definitely try experimenting a bit with this pref to see how > things behave in practice. > > -Boris
85 is minimum for me. That corresponds to 35 for text. Reduce padding by 10 as Ehsan showed, and 75 or 80 is usable. Running 100 for now. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
