I usually advocate either allowing us to reorder the tabs - as we can with the chat window - or having the devs change the order to something based on relevance, rather than alphabetization. However, this idea would work just as well.
Just get all those useless tabs out of the way so that the useful ones are easy to get at!
@Roderick
This is primarily brought on by the annoyance of navigating the salvage window, but the philosophy could probably be applied to all inventory-related windows.
And it's kind of self-explanatory from the subject title. Most of of the tabs in any given character's salvage window are empty and will remain that way for a very long time - base salvage is now completely out of the game, save for bits of history held on to by a handful of players, and component flows from there. Incarnate salvage doesn't come into play until Lv50 {and even then, only for vreems}, and event salvage is often either used or sold. That leaves only three tabs that see anything resembling common use, All, Special and Invention, the latter of the two being jammed on the far end of the window so they need scrolling to reach. Removing the tabs that are empty {and thus unusable until populated} would remove the need for a lot of annoying pixel-hunting.