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How do I hide tabs title in Firefox. It is a feature I really like in Chrome : when you have a lot of tabs, the only info that remains in the tab is the favicon. In Firefox we get a useless 4 letters title and it takes a lot of space in the tab bar for no added UX/UI benefit (I still need to mouseover the tab to know the title, and this is fine by me, I just want to reclaim the useless space to display more tabs).

How do I hide tabs title in Firefox. It is a feature I really like in Chrome : when you have a lot of tabs, the only info that remains in the tab is the favicon. In Firefox we get a useless 4 letters title and it takes a lot of space in the tab bar for no added UX/UI benefit (I still need to mouseover the tab to know the title, and this is fine by me, I just want to reclaim the useless space to display more tabs).
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Hi Arnaud Dupuis, I'm not sure the title is your main issue in making the tab narrower: Firefox has a minimum tab width of 50 pixels (the default is 76, but you can reduce it by setting the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 50 in about:config). Hiding the title and having blank space there might be a bit more aesthetically pleasing, but if you want smaller tabs, there's a hack for that. I listed the steps in this post: 1290794#answer-1323279.

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Suluhisho teule

Hi Arnaud Dupuis, I'm not sure the title is your main issue in making the tab narrower: Firefox has a minimum tab width of 50 pixels (the default is 76, but you can reduce it by setting the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 50 in about:config). Hiding the title and having blank space there might be a bit more aesthetically pleasing, but if you want smaller tabs, there's a hack for that. I listed the steps in this post: 1290794#answer-1323279.

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You can consider to open all tabs as pinned tab to only have the favicon.

You can find items like "Pin Tab" in the drop-down list that opens if you click the "Page actions" button (3-dot icon at the right end of the location/address bar).
You can right-click an item in the "Page actions" drop-down list to add its button to the location/address bar for easy access.

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Thanks, the userChrome solution is the one for me. It should be more straightforward though...

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Note that you can get issues if Firefox wants to add icons like when playing audio or view a video in PiP mode to a tab, so maybe test that.

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well, pining every single tab is not acceptable (I have hundreds of tabs on multiple windows) so either it works or I will be forced to switch back to Chrome (I have no desire or intention of doing that).