adamschwartz/chrome-tabs

Bug when creating many tabs

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mathieurivest commented

Bug when filling tab bar with many tabs. It seems like after a point, tabs are just created out of view.

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adamschwartz commented

What alternative behavior would you want? I can think of quite a few, but none stand out to me as clear winners:

  • Allow the tab bar to scroll horizontally

  • Enforce a maximum number of tabs and minimum tab bar width necessary to display this max

  • Show multiple rows of tabs

  • Show a dropdown to access extra/hidden tabs, similar to how the Chrome extension button works

    screen shot 2015-04-23 at 5 57 37 pm

  • Tab stacking of some sort

    screen shot 2015-04-23 at 6 00 48 pm

It should be noted that the latest Chrome (42.0.2311.90) on Mac OS X hides overflowing tabs roughly the same way we do.

screen shot 2015-04-23 at 5 50 02 pm

This window has 16 tabs and yet only 10 are shown. Even selected 11th tab is not even shown. I vaguely remember a time when Chrome used to show arrows to let you scroll the tab bar, but I guess that’s gone.

adamschwartz commented

Closing for now. Please provide a specific suggestion for improvement and we’ll reopen. Thx

adriansalgadoa commented

I just tested and when you reach a limit it starts creating them out of view (which is the correct behavior) but the last tab gets cut in half.

captura de pantalla 2015-04-30 10 05 09

I think the dropdown is a great idea, although it isn't chrome's "natural" behavior.