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How to turn off Firefox 2’s scrolling tab bar

October 25th, 2006

After using it for a day, one more thing drove me batty about Firefox 2. With more than a few tabs open, they started scrolling all over the place, making it extremely difficult to jump back and forth between them.

Here’s how to turn the tab scrolling feature off:

Go to about:config
Filter for the word tab
set browser:tabs:tabMinWidth to 0

Maybe I’m stuck in my old ways, but I use tabbed browsing a LOT and so far, I don’t count these two changes as improvements. I do love the dropdown list of tab names on the right though!