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Rockz1152
Strollin' around
Status: In development

The new "List all tabs" button redesign is off-putting for many users. An option to hide or disable it with a preference would be really helpful. It can't even be hidden with "Customize Toolbar" which seems like an oversight.

Users deserve a little agency in how the browser should look and feel.

33 Comments
Leoronus
Strollin' around

This reminds me so much of the separate taskbar listing for private windows debacle a while back; they introduced this "feature", many people hated it (yours truly included), next patch had an about:config key to disable it. More than half a year afterwards, they removed the config key's functionality, for absolutely no apparent reason (and they were active in the following discussions, they never gave their reasoning iirc). The reaction was so harsh that they had to reintroduce the feature to block the "feature" next patch.

Pharan
Strollin' around

I do wonder if someone there saw nobody was clicking on the button, and thought the solution was to make the button catch attention, instead of coming to the proper conclusion that many people just didn't need or like the button's functionality to begin with.

Pharan
Strollin' around

Yeah, I definitely feel like I start going crazy when I have more than 8 tabs open. I close tabs pretty aggressively. They're always in the history anyway, and I've only had to dig up an obscure old page I visited, maybe like once a month if even. So this button has no value for me and the little down chevron was at least something you can visually ignore.

Agentvirtuel
Collaborator
techfox
Making moves

Kudos. Or at least let us change it to the previous design.

myspace
Making moves

Please. There should be option to hide this, especially if we're using vertical tabs.

Agentvirtuel
Collaborator
asafko
Employee
Employee

Hi folks!

There's a contributor patch to make the icon hideable - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918681, and only return it to the toolbar/navbar if an extension hides tabs, as a security measure. We're finalizing its review, and it will going to be riding the trains shortly.

asafko
Employee
Employee

Hi folks!

There's a contributor patch to make the icon hideable - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918681, and only return it to the toolbar/navbar if an extension hides tabs, as a security measure. We're finalizing its review, and it will going to be riding the trains shortly.

H8ListTabButton
New member

The "List Tabs" button has shown up in the toolbar again after the latest update. For some reason, it cannot be removed from the toolbar without a custom style sheet, and the about:config option has been removed. Please undo this change. There is no reason to force this button for all users. This is especially frustrating because when the button is right-clicked on, there is an option for "Remove from Toolbar," but it is greyed out. Why was this functionality removed? Please bring it back.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas and posts have been merged into this thread)

Agentvirtuel
Collaborator
Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey all,

This is being worked on - see @asafko recent comment in the post for more info and feel free to track the work in this bug ticket.

Thanks again for sharing your feedback 🙌

FRNKMP
Strollin' around

Neither work for me. What do I do?