How can SM tell me how many tabs I have open?

a-865: is that all?

a-865: if i were to take a stab at it? maybe gBrowser.tabContainer.childNodes.length

but that might not match seamonkey

frg_Away: any thoughts?

but that will be per-window

not all tabs across all windows

for that u'd likely have to query and hunt down specific docshells or some shit

good luck with that

or be lazy and just query each window for all the tabs and add em up

taskbar in windows shows all open tabs count but also includes separate other windows in the count like download manager.

should be the same for linux.

simplest solution I think is get all navigator windows and for each get all the tabs and add em up and return value

I don't think linux has a taskbar provider

does it?

of course it hardly matters doing it using taskbar components would be silly

when windows are enumerated internally

and have types

nsIWindowWatcher.getWindowEnumerator()

so i think you do the stuff to get the nsIDOMWindow objects find the ones you want get into its dom document and get into that to get to gBrowser and get its tab count

CoordinatorTobin: I don't use more than one browser window per sesson, but I do run browser + IRC or browser + email

two different profiles, two different virtual desktop contexts

yeah i dunno then

a-865: maybe more detail in exactly whatcha wanna do would be helpful

It's inane finding tabs via that creepy crawly scroller that resets backwards whenever browser is reopened. Tabs list needs a normal scrollbar when there is a high number of tabs. The number of open tabs is too large to discover.

count doesn't need it's own UI. It could be a line item in about:support.

a-865: do you mean the tab-bar needs a scrollbar or that "creepy crawly scroller"? Because last I've checked, firefox has a scrollbar for the "creepy crawly scroller". So it might just need a backport if that's not too complex.

what is a creepy crawly scroller lol

I _suppose_ a-865 means that drop-down menu where you can go through all open tabs.