title: How to deal with annoyingly large tabs in IntelliJ IDEA?
body: <p>Working with some project I'd really like to keep like 8-10 tabs (=files) open at the same time within IntelliJ IDEA as I have to switch between those very often. However the space on the screen is limited especially if the <em>Project</em> Browser and the <em>Remote Host</em> Browser are also open at the same time.</p>
  
  <p>Usually its not that much of a problem but as soon as some remote files are open the labels become very long and therefore the space for tabs decreases even more. Look at the following picture:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ywUHW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ywUHW.png" alt="ntelliJ large tabs problem"></a></p>
  
  <p>A maximum of four tabs at the same time is visible - sometimes only three.</p>
  
  <p>Its not like others have not found very elegant solutions for this - look at the "pinned tabs" feature of google Chrome for instance:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MuknF.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MuknF.png" alt="Chrome pinned tabs"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is there some setting, extension or other possibility how to deal with this problem in IntelliJ? After some research I have only found out that you can switch recent files with <code>Ctrl + E</code> but in my opinion this still is a quite clumsy way to deal with it (especially as it does not work for remote files) </p>