"Feature Request" Option to hide entire TabCenter. Displayed on mouse reaches window boarder

[OndrejMalek]

see title

[dannyhajj]

I don't agree with this for several reasons:

• What if you had the browser in window mode, it will be very hard to stop the mouse pointer on a window's border. This would be worse for High resolution screens.
• Almost the same as above, but what if you have a dual screen, and your browser was on the right one, moving the mouse all the way to left will not stop it on the window's border, but may move it to the other screen (this may depend on your setup however). This would be worse for High resolution screens too.
• I use Ubuntu + Unity and I've set the Application Launcher to auto-hide. The Application Launcher is shown to the left side of screen by default in Unity (If you don't know about Ubuntu, the Application Launcher is almost similar to Mac OS'x dock). So when the Firefox is maximized, this feature will make both, the Application Launcher and the Tab Center, show on the same time which would become annoying very quickly. This problem is not exclusive to Ubuntu, this can be problematic for users who customize their theme on any other OS.
  And technically, this won't work at all because the launcher would then take focus of mouse pointer, and the TabCenter would then collapse.
• As a UX perspective, I don't see it as user friendly at all because it's hard to explain the behavior to the users.

[ericawright]

@dannyhajj

So when the Firefox is maximized, this feature will make both, the Application Launcher and the Tab Center, show on the same time which would become annoying very quickly.

Is this currently a problem? On Linux and Windows when using F11 full screen mode we hide TC. And as described, it shows on hovering the leftmost pixel.

[Shickmo]

I would think that in maximized, but not F11 full screen, it would be awesome to have an option to set the tab center to auto hide for a much cleaner looking interface. This would give everyone the option to decide what the default behavior should be.

[OndrejMalek]

@dannyhajj Good points. Could be problematic for your use cases. I have edited request to be optional. My use case is: Small laptop - operate tabs by keyboard only, but still preserve option to use mouse.

[dannyhajj]

@ericawright No there's no problem when in Full screen (At least on Ubuntu). I assume this is because the Application Launcher stays hidden when application are open in Full screen.