Ben09880 wrote:
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.
> (';')
I was about to do that, add lines to user.chrome I mean, but I use those
grippies sometimes.
(';')
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