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https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/programmatically_setting_multirow_tabs
Please note there is a new implementation of multi-row tabs in 7.4 that does have scroll buttons. So even after this new API is implemented you'd need to disable core.multitabs module to get the desired behavior.
Can you please add a branding property so that the scroll buttons can be enabled/disabled. Thanks.