A little more room on your screen by a small userchrome entry

Hi All,

For anyone who doesn't know this one, it reduces the height of your tab bar a little (& also affects the text). You can enter this at the bottom of your userchrome. Be aware the affect may be slightly different depending on the theme you use. The first line is an optional description to remind you in the future what the entry does. The example below shrinks the tab bar by 10% (100-90=10) by using 90% of default. You can play with the #s to see what suits your taste & vision. It's unlikely that you'll want a # under 80% & probably you won't want under 85%. I haven't tested it at higher than 100% (in case someone wants bigger size & text). The change is totally reversible by deletion, but better to copy your userchrome.css first to a different location as a temp backup. Note the { symbol is not a ( symbol.

/* Shrink tab titles to xx% of default */
.tabbrowser-tabs .tab-text {font-size: 90% !important;}

 

Do you know of any way that the text of a Tab may be changed? This is more important to me than shrinking the size of the Tab. Reason? At one time I have four tabs which started with "Welcome ". I can rename anything else but a Tab.

 

Hi Westside,
Sorry I don't have a specific solution, but perhaps can clue you just a bit into possibly finding one.

I believe I once saw 1 or a combination of Extensions that might be useful. They would be ones I don't use because I don't need them and/or they don't install and/or work in Netscape. I think the tab text is reading from the webpage author's choice of what should go there, so you'd need an Extension that can change or eliminate the item. I'm not certain if that would also affect the text tab, but it might. You'd of course have to do that on a site by site basis on your regularly visited sites. If you need links to Extension repositories, post here & send me a PM link so I won't miss it & I'll reply in Forum.

My guess is that a userchrome.css solution if (& likely possible) would only enable you to universally not display any text in the tab (I know I saw that someplace) or display a fixed text. Doing this doesn't seem positive to me, but I respect that you have your own reason. If you want to do this & don't find or receive the solution, you might figure it out by copying the css stylesheets to a different directory, opening them & looking for something 'appropriate' to experiment overiding in userchrome.css; if you 'play' with userchrome, back up a copy first as it seems to have a corruption tendency when you 'play'/experiment with edits that don't work.

Generally I have many tabs open from bookmark groups & as they're crowded, the text doesn't display anyway.

What I'd really like is an Extension that adds Close Tab to the Context Menu for a newly opened tab that is not highlighted/focused in the tab bar (because it's offscreen). I had found one such Extension but it didn't work in Netscape. Or an alternative would be the ability to scroll right on the tab bar but I haven't seen anything like that.

Sorry I wasn't more helpful.

 

Thanks, but I don't find this so irksome. In fact, I have reduced the Welcome tabs to one, so, I know which one it is I have 16 tabs open, now, in Netscape, and I am getting the favicon in 12 of them, and only three letters for the others, but, if I can't tell what The.., CO... or Wel... are, there is the mouseover.
I know that there would be no universal fix, not one which user-friendly.
Thanks.