nifty tab animation

Today's trunk nightly build has a nifty tab animation for overflow tabs. If you're not on the tip of the trunk, now's a great time. It's starting to get fun.

reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.

Overflow tabs? What are they?

Uhm, the animation is nice, but only seems to work for one tab? That is, I can scroll have a tab to the left/right but I cannot scroll to the 5 tabs left/right of that one that is displayed first/last.

It is nice when you scroll just one tab. When you scroll more than one tab at once, it is too slow.

I hope that it will be fixed. Otherwise, this is going to be unwelcome change.

I made a short animation to show for those who don't want to try a nightly: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/08/firefox-3-gets-smooth-tab-scrolling/

It can be disabled setting toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll to false in case you don't like it.

Everything is nice except for the flickering that occurs when animation is slowing down. Gives me a headache.