Firefox Tab Height under Windows 8 is double sized.
The Tab on my browser is double sized under Windows 8. I have already searched the forums for a solution and none worked.
Already tried: 1. Safe mode 2. Create new Profile 3. Reinstalled with NO extensions 4. Cleaned out everything entry in appdata/programdata/registry
After everything double sized tab persists.
So I am led to believe that this is some new setting for Firefox where it detects an unknown 'Tablet' mode and sets the default theme as having double sized tabs. -- And just FYI -- I am NOT using a touchscreen. So whatever it is detecting, it is faulty. If you are going to put this in as an option, please add an option to DISABLE it.
When I change to another theme, such as Mx3, it does fix the double sized.
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It does look like this issue is related to the touch interface. For me, the PC that has a touch screen displays larger tabs etc. The PC without displays normal tabs.
This must be a feature as you might want larger tabs/icons to tap using a touch interface. I agree it would be nice to have the ability to disable this.
Go to answer 10I had the same problem with Synaptics drivers on Windows 8 with a non-touchscreen laptop.
I've discovered they activate the touch element in Windows and it's this causing the problem.
The height trick in userChrome.css let me increase the tab height but not decrease it (I tried 30, 10, 1).
Opening Services I noticed the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service" was running and set to Automatic. I changed it to Disabled, reset my laptop and problem fixed.
System Properties did say I had a Pen or Touch Input (same as "Fdiio" above) but it now says "No Pen or Touch Input is available" again.
Go to answer 5Additional System Details
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
Updated to the latest Synaptics TouchPad drivers.
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- A plugin to detect whether the Adobe Extension Manager is installed on this machine.
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.9.2 for Mozilla browsers
- A plugin to detect whether the Adobe Application Manager is installed on this machine.
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Google Update
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.4
- Sony Reader Application Detector Plugin
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Streaming plugin for Mozilla browsers
- NVIDIA 3D Vision plugin for Mozilla browsers
- 5.1.10411.0
- Pando Web Plugin
- Garmin Communicator Plug-In 4.0.1.0
- AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.15
- 1.96.0
- 0.70.3
- wpidetector
- Windows Activation Technologies Plugin for Mozilla
- IE Tab 2 Plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox
- Detector for the Onlive Game Client
- Enables the interaction of Mathematica content with the latest installed version of Mathematica.
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- 6.0.12.448
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
More Information
Already tried:
1. Safe mode
2. Create new Profile
3. Reinstalled with NO extensions
4. Cleaned out everything entry in appdata/programdata/registry
I'm already running v8.1 (16.2.21.0 in Device Manager), so that's not it for me. I could try uninstalling/reinstalling them though.
You don't need to edit registry settings to disable the charms bar edge swipe, there's a tick in Mouse Settings "Enable Edge Swipes".
I've decided to go for leaving the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service" disabled as I don't have a touch screen or handwriting panel.
I'm not sure what a Touch Keyboard is? And disabling the service has no effect on multi-touch on my trackpad anyway (controlled by Synaptics).
I'm guessing disabling gestures.enable_single_finger_input disables Firefox's touch trackpad support, not that it works for me and it seems to be for Mac only.
@ ardofy: The tabs are bigger as it think you've got a touch screen and is making it easier for you to press them. I imagine anyway.
I was able to get something to work based on zoao's userChrome.css content. It involved adding a min-height attribute. Try this:
.tabbrowser-tabs *|tab {
height: 20px !important;
min-height: 20px !important;
}
Seems to work nicely on my brand new Surface Pro.
Modified by zombiemozilla
Thanks. That absolutely fixed the problem for me on a Surface Pro.
Well I spoke too soon. It fixed my tab issue, and now they look normal, but now there is no touch functionality in Firefox. I use my finger to try and scroll down a web page or pinch/zoom and it just selects text as if I'm using the left button on my mouse and dragging.