Visual studio 2013 tab wrapping glitch

Question

I have pinned about 7 documents and they almost fill the tab strip, leaving space for only one more document to be opened (depending on the length of the filename) on that tab strip. Then when files are automatically opened as I cycle through "Find Results" or "Find Symbol Results" windows then, depending on the length of the filename, the new tab goes onto a second tab strip.

The issue I am seeing is that Visual Studio gets itself into a mess and is stuck in a loop of moving the tab from the 1st strip to the 2nd strip. I can do nothing in visual studio except watch the tabs dance. I end up having to kill Visual Studio - via Task Manager.

It is just continuously cycling from this:

to this:

Is this a known issue? Is there a solution other than not pinning "too many" documents!

Answer 1

This is caused by an issue in the current version of Pro Power Tools. Details of the issue can be found on connect here.

The (obvious) suggested workarounds are:

1. Display pinned tabs on a separate row from unpinned tabs (Tools > Options > Environment > Tabs and Windows > Show pinned tabs in a separate row).
2. Unpin some tabs, or pin some more tabs.
3. Change the width of the document well containing the tabs, either by resizing the outer window or resizing windows docked to the left or right of the document well.