Shortly after installing SM for the first time (2.17.1) I noticed the
exact same effects with the tab bar and mail/news.
I'm on W7.
What I did was 'remove grippys' (theme component/userchrome.css) *after*
I clicked to minimize the bar.
Now, the tab bar *never* shows in Mail/News. And since it is completely
useless in Mail/News at the present time, seems to be a great
work-around/fix.
The browser settings for the tab bar do not appear to affect Mail/News
anymore. No placeholder/wasted space from the 'minimize grippy', and I
gained about 10px horizontally in each toolbar.
Just wanted to share my thoughts... and my own solution.
Benjamin
LnrB wrote, On 5/30/2013 10:28 AM:
Rob wrote:
LnrB <[email protected]> wrote:
> Geoff Welsh wrote:
>> LnrB wrote:
>> > One of the things I've used since Netscape Communicator was that
handy
>> > little tool, the drop down menu in mail-news.
>> >
>> > When Netscape 7 dropped it, I was one of the first ones to
install the
>> > Princeton Jars, which restored that function. It's one of the
things I
>> > use *Every* time I open mail/news, and the first thing I enable
with a
>> > new install. The first things I Disable are sidebars in both
browser
>> > and mail/news.
>> >
>> > I have noticed, however, the mail location bar is GONE beginning
with
>> > SM2.1 and replaced by the Completely Useless Tab bar. Whose
bright idea
>> > was that anyway??!! I could tolerate the tab bar (which will NOT go
>> > away no matter what I do) even though it takes up valuable space
on the
>> > screen if I also had the Location bar, but I wonder what earthly
purpose
>> > tabs serve in mail/news because it doesn't stick when mail/news
is closed.
>> >
>> > Without the drop-down location bar I have to have the sidebar
open all
>> > the time taking up even More screen space.
>> >
>> > Is there an add-on I haven't found that restores the location bar
>> > function, or is there a hack or tweak somewhere so I can get it
back? I
>> > do hope so, because this is actually a game breaker for me and
I'll feel
>> > forced to return to SM versions before 2.1.
>> > (';')
>> >
>> Hmm. Fascinating. I had never heard of nor seen the Location
Toolbar
>> in a mail window so I looked on my SeaMonkey 2.0 machine and whaddya
>> know, it's under View / Show/Hide. No clue why I'd want that
though. I
>> use a Classic View 3 Pane layout.
>>
>> Then I looked on this machine under View / Show/Hide and I see the Tab
>> Toolbar is checked...but I have no idea what it is....unchecking it
>> changes NOTHING.
>>
>> sorry I can't answer your question.
>> GW
> OK, that explains why I can't get rid of that Useless Tab Bar. Must be
> yet another bug they warned about on the Download page.
> (';')
There is a bug in Seamonkey causing interaction between the tab bar
settings in the browser and in the mail window.
When you set the tab bar to be always visible in the browser settings,
it will also be visible in the mail window, even though it is useless
there.
When you set "hide tab bar when only one tab is open", it will also
affect
the mail window. The tab bar will disappear there.
Of course this is wrong, as is also shown by the name of the pref that
controls this setting (browser.tabs.autoHide), but it does not appear
to be high priority to fix this.
It is inconvenient, because opening the extra tab that is required to
show the tab bar in the browser requires more mouse action or remembering
the shortcut key. A workaround is to save a tab group as the start
page, so that more than one tab is already open in the browser when you
start seamonkey, and the tab bar is visible in the browser.
Thank you, Bob, that confirms my suspicion. Now I know how to deal with
it.
(';')
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