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get tabs back in titlebar (osx)

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Dino_Martino
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Hi,

On a windows 8 PC, I can enable tabs to be in the titlebar. I can't find a way to do this on OSX mountain lion. (Fresh install of Firefox). I've googled around to no avail.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

Hi, On a windows 8 PC, I can enable tabs to be in the titlebar. I can't find a way to do this on OSX mountain lion. (Fresh install of Firefox). I've googled around to no avail. Any help is appreciated! Thanks

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That is not possible on Mac.

You can only have the Tab on top and possibly switch to full screen mode.
I don't know if it is possible to have the toolbars and tab bar visible all the time in full screen mode.
On Windows and Linux the Navigation Toolbar and Tab bar appear if you hover to the top and you can right-click empty area on the tab bar to open the toolbar context menu to remove tick next to "Hide Toolbars".

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cor-el
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That is not possible on Mac.

You can only have the Tab on top and possibly switch to full screen mode.
I don't know if it is possible to have the toolbars and tab bar visible all the time in full screen mode.
On Windows and Linux the Navigation Toolbar and Tab bar appear if you hover to the top and you can right-click empty area on the tab bar to open the toolbar context menu to remove tick next to "Hide Toolbars".

Dino_Martino
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OK thanks, sad to hear that. Consider it a suggestion for the next version! It makes for a much more sleek, minimalist look! And saves desktop space...

cor-el
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On Mac it is already different than on the other platforms that the Menu bar is under the control of the Mac OS and always visible at the top of the window.
On Windows you only get the tabs in the title bar when the Firefox window is maximized and the browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar pref is set to true (about:config).
You can maximize the window and see if this browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar pref works for you when set to true.