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Desktop Figma app: Too many tabs open, can't view the tabs don't fit in the horizontal view

  • December 12, 2023
  • 6 replies
  • 463 views

ahmad_tabby

It is very annoying that there’s no horizontal scroll on the tabs bar in Figma Desktop app. I want to have a lot of files open at the same time, but when the tabs get too many and they go under the horizontal fold, there’s no way to see or access them except for using the keyboard shortcuts.

At some point, I don’t even know how many tabs are hidden from my view 🤷

Please add the ability to scroll or introduce some better tab management.

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  • Figmate
  • 2135 replies
  • December 15, 2023

Thanks for your thought! I have shared this feedback with our internal team and we’ll consider it for future improvements.


Hong_Peng
  • 1 reply
  • February 15, 2024

When there are many tabs open, there is no handling of tab overflowing. I can’t access many tabs.


  • Figmate
  • February 16, 2024

Hi @Hong_Peng, Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I understand how painful this situation is!
I found the other community member asking for something similar here. So I merged your post to have all the feedback in one place.
Feel free to to give this idea a vote up!

Thanks,


Daniel_J
  • 1 reply
  • March 7, 2024
  1. Overflow not being present is very annoying
  2. Even better, being able to actually manage those tabs (for those who use many) would be a life-changer (cough grouping?)

Chandan_R_Sindhe

Hey,

Not sure if you all facing this problem, I usually face this every time when I open multiple files for multiple projects, some file goes hidden, I need to close few Figma files to see them and also file names are not shown clearly. I just like how google chrome handles this problem. Created some idea on that which will help with this problem.


Kendrick_Huynh

Kind of relatedly, when I have tab overflow, I’m unable to move the window from my smaller laptop screen to my larger monitor screen. I have to close out of some tabs to make room, after which I can then move the window itself. Small annoyance but there’s gotta be a way to solve for this? Thanks.

Screenshot shows small sliver of space required to move the window. When tabs overflow, that space doesn’t exist.


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