@StefanScherer thanks for the contribution but I do not see why this cannot be achieved with the solution we have for the shrink option? I suggest to look at #40290 and see if it can be implemented with the existing options we have.

Chrome for example also has a similar tab sizing behaviour as our shrinking and still manages to have the behaviour of allowing to quickly close tabs without moving the mouse. I think tabs only resize when the mouse leaves the tab stripe.

@bpasero Thanks for the link. Yes #40290 indeed looks good. The only thing is that the example shown there uses oldmost same sized tabs (Untitled-1, Untitled-2, ...) even if there are only a few tabs open. The problem I see with shrink is that tabs with short file names are smaller, so in a real situation closing multiple tabs still doesn't work easily:

@StefanScherer yeah but then let's try to get at the tab sizing that e.g. Chrome does where each tab has the same width but when you reduce the size of the parent container, all tabs shrink evenly. With your proposed solution I see a scrollbar showing up when doing so:

@StefanScherer are you still planning to work on this?

@bpasero No, I'm occupied with other things so I can't spend much spare time to implement this. But I can help testing if somebody else comes up with another solution.

Ok thanks, closing then.