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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Dec 2016
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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tabs update width slowly after closing tabs

Reported by eng.a7ma...@gmail.com, Nov 30 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. open many tabs so the tab width gets smaller
2. close some tabs to make space for other tabs to expand

What is the expected behavior?
tabs expand immediately 

What went wrong?
tabs stay compressed for few seconds before realizing that they have space to use
the attached gif explains the issue 

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 54.0.2840.99  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

- closing the last tab prevents this bug
- mouse movement is unrelated (the gif might confuse someone to think this)
 
slowtabs.gif.gif
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Comment 1 by jsherm...@gmail.com, Nov 30 2016

Yes they did take a min to get bigger and it lagged a little upon me closing them and then upon me closing like 5 of them i stopped and it still took like 40 seconds for it to expand them back

Comment 2 by ajha@chromium.org, Dec 5 2016

Components: -UI UI>Browser>TabStrip
Labels: M-54

Comment 3 by sky@chromium.org, Dec 5 2016

I'm a bit confused by this bug. The tabs should expand when you move the mouse out of the tabstrip. Is that not happening?
Yes they should.  and they do.
but in after a really long pause
it's like chrome tabs needs 5-6 seconds to finally realize that they have
space anf then start to expand.
I usally have big number of tabs so they get very tight and I close many at
once and I always have to wait for a while before they expand

Comment 5 by sky@chromium.org, Dec 5 2016

Once you move the mouse out of the tabstrip the tabs should resize in 300ms. In the gif you have attached it seems to resize pretty quickly after you move the mouse out of the tabstrip.
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Right, the tabs will never expand as long as you stay in the tabstrip.  The trigger for them to expand is moving your mouse out of the tabstrip.  I suspect it seems like things are taking a while because the mouse is still over the tabstrip during that time.

Closing tabs with keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse is one way around this, as the strip will resize immediately when tabs are closed with e.g. ctrl-w instead of clicking the close button.
Thanks for the workarounds, at least I can avoid this annoying issue
but I still think this needs fixing :)
as a user I expect the effect to happen immediately not after I move the mouse away (assuming I know about this in the first place)
I think it makes sense to trigger after tab close and not after a mouse out.

I really hope you guys reconsider the wontfix. at least keep it open for someone to fix someday :)

thanks!


Comment 8 by sky@chromium.org, Dec 6 2016

It's not a work around. The reason chrome does this is so that you can close multiple tabs without having to move the mouse. In the image you attached you close 5 tabs without moving the mouse. If the tabs resized after every close you would have have to move the mouse after every close as the close button would not be under the mouse.
oic!
funny how different I see it now. from hate to love in 60 seconds :D
thanks for your time

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