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How to use about:config to configure Tabs on your browser (Practice Article)
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New users who have just switched from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox can tweak their browsers' setting according to the way they want them to work by using a feature called "about:config". Therefore, this article serves to provide a few cool tricks to help users on changing the default settings for their tabs.
about:config helps you to tweak your browser settings. This article describes you about changing the default settings of your browser tabs using about:config.
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This article is going to show the basics on how you can change the way tabs can be displayed on Mozilla's browser especially if you want to replicate a Chrome feature whereby there's no scrolling tabs function.
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=Configuring the Scrolling Tabs function=
By default, Firefox will not reduce the width of the tabs. You have the scrolling tabs function so that, the minimum width for the tabs will remain at 100px. If you do not like the scrolling function, you can ask Firefox to display all tabs in a single strip. This is an option you are familiar with if you are an avid Google Chrome user. You can also choose to show more tabs in a single strip by adjusting the width of the tabs.
==How to disable the scrolling tabs function==
#On the URL, type in '''about:config''' without the protocol http:// and www.
#When prompt, click on the button '''I'll be careful, I promise''' <br>[[Image:How to use about:config to configure Tabs on your browser]]
#Type '''browser.tabs.tabMinWidth''' in the 'Search' bar and press 'Enter'.
#Double click on 'browser.tabs.tabMinWidth' and you will see a new pop-up window.
#Change the value to '0' if you wish to disable the scrolling tabs function. Otherwise, you can change the default value to a smaller value like 75 pixel in order to show more tabs in each strip.
This article is going to show the basics on how you can change the way tabs can be displayed on Mozilla's browser especially if you want to replicate a Chrome feature whereby there's no scrolling tabs function.
__TOC__
=Configuring the Scrolling Tabs function=
By default, Firefox will not reduce the width of the tabs. You have the scrolling tabs function so that, the minimum width for the tabs will remain at 100px. If you do not like the scrolling function, you can ask Firefox to display all tabs in a single strip. This is an option you are familiar with if you are an avid Google Chrome user. You can also choose to show more tabs in a single strip by adjusting the width of the tabs.
==How to disable the scrolling tabs function==
#On the URL, type in '''about:config''' without the protocol http:// and www.
#When prompt, click on the button '''I'll be careful, I promise''' <br>[[Image:How to use about:config to configure Tabs on your browser]]
#Type '''browser.tabs.tabMinWidth''' in the 'Search' bar and press 'Enter'.
#Double click on 'browser.tabs.tabMinWidth' and you will see a new pop-up window.
#Change the value to '0' if you wish to disable the scrolling tabs function. Otherwise, you can change the default value to a smaller value like 75 pixel in order to show more tabs in each strip.
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