How do I change the minimum tab width in 4.0b6? Having tabs 140px wide is painful.
We (the users) used to have "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth" working in about:config but now it is not working anymore. Setting browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to zero let us have tabs showing only the icon, allowing for a lot of tabs being visible at the same time for fast navigation.
Having to load an addon to change tab width (assuming such an addon can even do that now) seems counterproductive.
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I lost another 30 minutes, created userChrome.css in the profile folder, added the tweak, and it didn't work. Ended up installing an addon for a one time easy tweak :(
Holy crap. I finally figured this out by reading the comments in the userChrome.css file. It actually has to be in your <profile>/chrome directory, and it was just in my <profile> directory. There are some example files in the chrome directory, but they have "-example" in the filename, so they do nothing (and don't turn up if you do a file search for userChrome.css). The comment says:
/*
* Edit this file and copy it as userChrome.css into your * profile-directory/chrome/ */
The code that worked in my file is:
.tabbrowser-tab[fadein]:not([pinned]) {
min-width: 15px !important; max-width: 250px !important;
}
What an irritating change to a system that worked.