"Floating" app tabs during tab overflow about firefox-gnome HOT 5 CLOSED

This is actually a bug in the default theme as well... It's just not as obvious as it is in our theme.

I may be able to fix it for Adwaita through CSS.

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Commit eed2b01 addresses this issue somewhat. Now the pinned app tabs in tab overflow mode are not detatched from the URL bar. However, they do not have the overlapped look to them, and the backgrounds of the tabs to the right of the selected tab are still incorrect (having a gap) as a result.

At least this is a bit of progress to make it not look completely odd.

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I worked around the overflow problem by making the min-width of tabs 16px (for the favicons to still display). This is pretty much what Chrome does in this situation.

If people really want to read the full text, there are a number of better solutions, each far superior to tab overflow mode:

1. Switch to the tab, and the titlebar will show the title
2. Hover over the tab to see the complete title
3. Use Tab Groups
4. Add List All Tabs to the tab bar

If one would add either Tab Groups or List All Tabs to the tab bar, it is recommended to add it after the +, otherwise tab overflow mode would be activated if it is in between the tabs and the +.

With this change and recommendations, I consider this as fixed as it's going to be (I think). The only other way of fixing this further is to cleverly prevent tab overflow mode in the CSS via disabling it somehow with !important.

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I'd also like to note that tab overflow doesn't just mess up the visual appearance of themes (especially ours), but it also prevents the new tab resize behavior in Firefox 5+ on mouse-out to not work correctly. I firmly believe that tab overflow mode should be disabled in Firefox due to this and the above 4 alternatives (especially with the Firefox 4 Tab Groups view) mentioned above.

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This indeed looks better. Great job!

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