Vertical tab groups in the sidebar
I am using firefox on ubuntu (firefox 142.0.1 (64-bit)) and using vertical tabs in the side bar. I recently started using the new(ish) feature of tab groups and I absolutely love it. I was using STG (simple tab groups) before and that fine, but this is way nicer. The only small annoyance I have, which could be a mistake on my side. Is that some of my tab groups are shortend seemingly randomly? If I for example make a group named "phone" it is visible like that, but after a couple of hours it goes to "ph...". I thought it may be sidebar width not being wide enough, but you can see in my screenshot that is not the case. Strangely if I make a new group it is always complete.
So I was wondering if I am missing a setting or config entry.
Thank you for reading and hope you have a great day!
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It looks like a bug within Firefox's vertical tabs and tab groups implementation.
You can try to resize the Sidebar, sometimes simply grabbing the edge of the sidebar and making it slightly wider or narrower can force the UI to redraw, restoring the full group name.
The best thing you can do to help is to file a bug report on the Mozilla Bugzilla tracker if one doesn't already exist. Providing your specific details (Firefox version, Ubuntu version, and a screenshot) will help the developers pinpoint and fix the problem.
If you click the group label to expand it, then click again to collapse it, does the full label display after either click?
Both expanded and collapsed states are set to the same max-width (a value called -moz-available) so they really should all be able to use the full sidebar width all the time. Very odd.
Hey, Tried grabbing the edge of the sidebar, did not redraw the ui for me. Or at least it doesn't restore the full name Also expanding or collapsing and that also does not change anything.
I made a bug report. Thanks for the quick replies!
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