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How To Make FireFox 2 Tabs Work Properly

The biggest drawback with Firefox 2 is that the tabs have been 'improved'. The new style tabs have close buttons on each individual tab and that the tabs are a lot wider now so even with a large high resolution monitor one is forever scrolling looking for the correct tab.

The following configuration fix will solve this.

Open Firefox:
In the browser enter the URL: "about:config" (no quotes)
You ought to see a load of configuration values. There are two in which you will be interested.
  browser.tabs.closeButtons set this value to 3 - This will remove the close button from each tab.
  browser.tabs.tabMinWidth set this value to 0 - This will make the tab as small as possible before scrolling.

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