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no close tab button on unactive tabs

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For some reason, none of the tabs have an option to close the tab without moving the focus to that tab. I have to open the tab before I can click the 'x' button. the setting in about:config is at 1, which should show the buttons, but its not.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== ???

For some reason, none of the tabs have an option to close the tab without moving the focus to that tab. I have to open the tab before I can click the 'x' button. the setting in about:config is at 1, which should show the buttons, but its not. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == ???

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cor-el
cor-el
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If you have opened too many tabs then it is possible that you only see a close button on the active tab.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.tabs.tabClipWidth

AnonymousUser
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Has an effect in 

   * Mozilla Firefox (1.6a1 builds since 2006-01-20, experimental tabbed browsing builds from 2005-09-20 to 2005-11-03)