Google-chrome – How to disable the close (X) button on Google Chrome tabs

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Is there any way to make Chrome not display an X button for each tab?

I have two reasons for this:

  1. When I have many tabs open, the X buttons take a lot of screen real estate and make the tab titles shorter.
  2. Sometimes I try to move to a different tab and accidentally close it because I push the X button by mistake. (Again, dense tabs.)

Since I almost always use Ctrl + w to close tabs, I don't really need the close button.

Is there any way to make it go away?

Best Answer

at least I can not see the 'x' when i opened 20 tabs, except for active tab... but that said: no, there is no way of hiding the 'x' except grabbing chromium and changing the source code yourself.

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