Some folks, including myself do not like the tab overflow feature that was added to Firefox 2. For those of you who are not familiar with this feature when the width (in pixels) of the tabs becomes less than set amount (default is 100 pixels) Firefox will add scroll buttons to each end of the tab bar (see sample here). The purpose of this feature was so that all the tabs open will have a minimum width of 100 pixels. At 100 pixels the tabs are still relatively readable. It is important to understand that tab-overflow does not kick-in when…

For quite some time, Firefox 3 has been called Minefield. The name Minefield was actually the name of the trunk Firefox 3 is built on, not the project code name. The official project code name for Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso, named after a mountain group located in Italy.