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> But focusing on solid defaults and then opening up with options seems to make sense.

Since everything is entirely preferential, you can't claim the current defaults are solid

> As the kids say, "let them cook".

They had decades to cook

> I sure prefer an iterative release over even more delay on such a widely requested feature

This is just another bad excuse (and also universal), especially since the current design is more complicated (due to the extra UI element), so likely took more time to implement. Sometimes better is faster.

> You can start by measuring actual width instead of making up tiny numbers.

> And you don't think the designers and engineers at Mozilla did this and simply interpret a different benchmark from you?

How is this relevant to you making up 5px?

> challenge trying to accommodate such a range

There is no challenge here, waste becomes apparent as soon as you reach 100% width, 100 or 40k tabs doesn't matter.

> average tab count maintained is on the lower side.

You've said nothing specific here. What % of users have tabs that don't fit tab bar width? And which % counts as "anyone" from your perspective?



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