The latest nightly build of Firefox 3 has a nice new feature that the eye-candy lovers out there will like. In Firefox when you open too many tabs they overflow and scrollers on each end of the Tab Bar appear. That way you can navigate between all of your tabs without having them shrink down to the size of a pea.
Firefox 3 is looking to spruce that feature up a bit my animating the scrolling motion so that it isn’t so choppy. It’s a little hard to explain so I threw together a quick video to demonstrate the new feature:
You’ll also notice at the end of the video I demonstrate the new resizable toolbar elements.
I think that this is a pretty cool feature, but it is of little use to me. Don’t get me wrong…I’m a sucker for eye candy, but I actually modify Firefox so that it almost never scrolls my tabs. I’d honestly rather see tabs that are super small than have to scroll to find what I’m looking for.
Sources: Asa Dotzler & Mozilla Links
Very nice, I wonder if they going add something like this for the tabs when we move the tabs around. Something like what the Safari browser does.
I have tab scrolling set to 75 in about:config so I might get some use of of this. Just wondering, what software did you use to make that screencast?
I would think that would be pretty easy now that they already have the animation down pat.
We’ve bought Camtasia for our screencasts.
That’s pretty cool. Though I also set the min width to about 70, so I rarely ever get enough tabs to have to scroll.
The resizable thingy looks cool, too.
This will make Firefox 3 even more cool to use.
It seems a little weird for me that the Menu toolbar and Navigation toolbar are blue but the Tab bar is grey. I think it would look a little better if they were in the same color, but maybe this is a bug from Vista, i don’t know… Also I don’t have the word “grey” in my Firefox dictionary. Do I have some spelling problems or can i add it to the dictionary?