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by alleyshack 2144 days ago
I want to switch to Firefox, but of all things, its tab management is keeping me away. On my last try, I gave up after five minutes because I couldn't see all my open tabs at once (had to scroll). Does anyone know of an extension or setting I can use to force Chrome-like tab behavior, where all tabs are shown at once regardless of how small they become?
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I don't think you can prevent tabs from scrolling off screen, but you can set the "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth" about:config pref to a tiny number so you can fit more tabs on screen.

You can also see the full list of tabs (with titles) in the tab overflow dropdown menu. It's the down arrow button to the right of the tab strip. The dropdown menu only appears after you open at least ~20 tabs. I set the browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled about:config pref = true to always show it (because I like see the full tab titles).

I use tree style tabs, which is amazing for tab hoarders like me: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Do you still have to navigate? Like, click or scroll or whatever, to get between tabs? I'm looking for a UI that shows me all my tabs, all at once, no clicks/scrolling/navigation required.
For people with a lot of tabs, I recommend trying a Vertical Tabs add-on. I am currently using Vertical Tabs Reloaded, but there are a couple different ones. Usually people have plenty of horizontal space and you have a scrollable sidebar with all your tabs in it.
Thanks, but I'm looking for something that doesn't require scrolling - where I can see all my open tabs at the same time, no scrolling, clicks, or other interaction required. I toggle between tabs a LOT, and having to scroll or otherwise navigate to find the right tab is a hard no for me.
The Firefox search also searches open tabs a lot. Which could be even quicker than using the mouse. There is a limit on Chromium browsers - tabs smaller than the favicon aren't really that useful.