Many thanks. This works great. I found a 4px wide margin was sufficient for me to park my mouse pointer on the right edge of the screen without expanding tabs, and the background colour is consistent and narrow enough to not be annoying, so I didn't try moving the scrollbar to the right edge.
There is another question about the tabs, but it is unrelated to expanding, so I will start a new thread about tab colours.
Many thanks for the reply. Yes, setting z-index brings the tabs in front of the page content. Unfortunately, the tabs are then covering the navbar and statusbar.
So what I did is set the tabpanel top to height of menubar + height of navbar; and also set the tabpanel height to 100vh - height of menubar - height of navbar - height of statusbar. Height of menubar and height of statusbar can be initialized to '0' for users not using those bars. The way I found the height of the menubar and the height of the statusbar was simply by experimenting, as I don't know how else to find them (my menubar is less than the default, since I've reduced the padding).
If one can't determine hover on scrollbar, could you let me know how to set the tabpanel, which I have on the right side of the window, a few pixels to the left of the right edge of the window? That way there will be a slight empty space there, where the mouse pointer won't cause the tabs to expand.
Also, how can I reduce the height of the tabs, in order to show more tabs at once?
Just to add a bit of data: the undesired status updating in the original status panel appears and transitions very quickly when a new link is loaded, so one has to be looking for it. But the same data that appears in the fake status bar, takes quite a bit longer when a new domain is being referenced, because of some issues with DNS lookup that one can find many threads about in Reddit.
But this is a minor annoyance that I can live with until the next ESR update. Thanks for all of your terrific working in creating these amazingly helpful code groups and keeping them updated!
I'm using Windows 10, Firefox 128.8.0 ESR, in compact mode, with multi-row tabs below content. The multi-row tabs work fine, and the status bar (in which are my add-on icons) works fine, with the exception that the original status-panel still shows the link progress.
At the bottom of the fake_statusbar_w_bookmarksbar.css file, there is a final group of lines with a comment referring to covering the real statuspanel. I wonder if it is in this area where something needs to be changed, but I don't understand that group of lines, so I leave it in your capable hands.
Thanks for the quick response. Loaded the new css, but unfortunately the issue remains: the loading information still appears in the old/normal position (lower left corner of window, just above the fake status bar), as well as in the fake status bar.
There seem to be comments, and even new posts, on lemmy which are not showing up here on fedia.io. Anyone know what the issue is, or whether it is going to be addressed? Really, can someone tell us a little bit about these sites? Which is the original, the parent, and so on?
Yeah, I suspected that that would be the case, but was hopeful anyway 🙄 . Thanks for the reply, though.