101475 - browsing with too many "tabs" prevents closing the tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 101774

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Rainer Mager]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010925
BuildID:    20010925

This is actually a combination of bugs/comments but the main one is:

If you are browsing in "tabs" (hit CTRL-T) and have too many open (hit CTRL-T
many times) then there is no way to close the tabs as the X mark to the right
disappears.

No the other bugs/comments.

1. I don't see any reference to the "tabs" functionality in the menus anywhere.
If I hadn't accidentally hit CTRL-T I never would have know it existed.

2. This extends to closing the tabs. I see no way except for the X mark to close
the tabs. This is somewhat aggrivated because the close window function (CTRL-W)
closes the window and all open tabs. It would be nice if there was a clear
distinction between closing windows and tabs and that closing a window with
multiple tabs warned you.

3. Part of the main bug above, when opening many tabs, perhaps it should "layer"
them vertically.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open many tabs (CTRL-T)

Actual Results:  n/a

Expected Results:  n/a

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to hyatt.

Rainer: this is brand new functionality that got checked in a few days ago. 
There is a good chance it will never end up in the UI; the UI design people are
fairly opposed to it....  In fact, some are lobbying for disabling the ctrl-t
shortcut...

Comment 2

[Mark Slater]

Dunno if I should open a new bug for this, but it's somewhat related: Why not
have a context menu for the tabs, instead of that lil "x" way off to the right?
Only after reading the reporter's comments on this bug did I notice how to close
the tabs. Oh, and fwiw, I vote that the tabs (including CTRL-T) stay. I've only
been using them for 10 minutes, and I love 'em already :-)

Comment 3

[michael birchler]

I love this feature too. In my opinion the moztabbar should look like this:
http://www.finali.ch/temp/mozilla/mozbar.jpg.
the two arrows should change the tab layer.

mjb

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 101732 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

I don't see this, but I still think that the UI could be improved, you shouldn't
have to stack the close box over the tabs.

Comment 6

[David Hyatt]

The stack is temporary.  I won't be using a stack once I get the overflow working.

Comment 7

[Adam D. Moss]

Technically this bug is now fixed (or at the
very least has an excellent workaround) since
you can close out-of-view tabs by using ctrl-tab
to select the tab you wish to close and then
ctrl-F4 to close it.  Aestetically the problem
remains, but...

Comment 8

[emmet]

also right mouse clicking on the tab will bring up a menu that
lets you close that particular tab.

Comment 9

[brian]

one way of fixing this bug is to be able to navigate in the tabs bar with left
and right arrows at each ends of the window, ie:

    _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____   
<< | tab || tab || tab || tab || tab || tab || tab || tab || tab || tab | X  >>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
it would be aestetically pleasing and would be able to blend into the UI as well.

Comment 10

[Stephen D Cope]

Just to throw my opinion into the mixing bowl ...

[e-mail]'s idea of the arrows would be good. Rather than
making the tabs thinner to fit many (or crashing as Opera did :-) keeping them
the same size and being able to scroll would help people whose mousing skills
weren't top notch.

michael birchler's suggestion has the change to get really fiddly, and may
overwhelm with too many widgets.
(BTW, too many tabs stretches the web pages inside the window as well, and the
scrollbar disappears off to the right. 0.9.5 on Win98)

Comment 11

[Andrew Simmonds]

I've been having a play around with this xul lately. All that needs to happen 
asto stop the [x] being knocked off if there is to many tabs is a <xul:hbox> 
being put around the tab code that will start bunching the tabs up if there is 
to many instead of knocking the tabs off screen.

Comment 12

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 105755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 106141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[[e-mail]]

Either this is a dup of bug 101774 or that is a dup of this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101774 ***

Comment 15

[timeless]

vrfy dupe
good choice since there are 2 ways to close tabs (ctrl-w, right click) and fewer
ways to use invisible scrollbars.