194341 - UI for "Close other tabs"

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Pierre Chanial]

and if we don't change anything, at least port the clean up from Neil's fix in
bug 191818.
Currently in moz: "close other tabs" in the file menu but not in the tab
contextual menus.
Currently in Phoenix: no "close other tabs" at all.

Comment 1

[Jason Bassford]

> Currently in moz: "close other tabs" in the file menu but not in the tab
> contextual menus.

No longer true.  Bug 191826 re-introduced the context menu item.

Comment 2

[Pham]

OS all?
Hardware all?

Comment 3

[Walter K.]

Can this be fixed for Fb 0.6? Please.

If it's decided against having 'Close Other Tabs' in by default, a pref (off by
default) for the functionality is the next best option.

Comment 4

[Hansjakob Zuberbühler]

remove this d*mn context-entry. i clicked again twice on this entry and lost all
urls... or move it at least further away from the "close this tab" entry.

Comment 5

[Walter K.]

[e-mail]: there is no "close this tab" menu option, in Firebird it's
called "Close Tab". And the correct solution to your "trigger-happy" clicking is
to have Edit|Undo implemented for tab closing.

Right now, there are four (4) ways of closing the currently open tab, and no way
of closing all others but the current tab at once. That's why I'm advocating at
least a possibility of having "Close Other Tabs" context menu (via a pref or not).

Another possible way of doing this is to have "Open Tab in New Window" context
menu item. Then one can easily re-open the current tab in a new window and close
the original window altogether. However, this approach is not 100% comparable
with having "Close Other Tabs" because session|scrolling|history|etc.
information will get lost.

Comment 6

[Justin]

I just started playing with 1.4B and I'm very disappointed to see that "close
other tabs" is now again right next to "close tabs". As has already been stated,
it is way too easy to accidentally hit the wrong item and lose a whole screen of
tabs. 

This is hostile to the user. Several excellent suggestions have already been
offered, including seperating "close tab" and "close other tabs" which might be
the easiest way. 

Comment 7

[Ken Yee]

Accidentally clicking on Close Other Tabs finally bit me enough times to get me
annoyed enough to file a bug on it and it turns out there are 3 bugs filed
against it already :-)

At one point, Mozilla separated the Close Tab and Close Other Tab items in the
context menu and I thought it was fixed, but then they moved back together. 
While that's good from a UI grouping standpoint, it's still frustrating when you
press the wrong menu item.  Another thread suggested overloading the Close Tab
entry so you use Alt or some other key to get it to close the other tabs.  That
seems like a reasonable thing to do as well, but the newbie users will never
find it.
Maybe grouping the Close Other Tabs and Reload All Tabs under a new context menu
submenu would be better...like:
All Tabs
....Close
....Reload
....Save As Bookmark

Whatever the decision is, it's pretty apparent that the current UI has to change
given the number of bugs filed against it...

Comment 8

[Sam Halliday]

Justin wrote on 2003-05-08:
> I'm very disappointed to see that "close other tabs"
> is now again right next to "close tabs". As has already
> been stated, it is way too easy to accidentally hit
> the wrong item and lose a whole screen of tabs. 

damn right... i was just about to report this as a bug as well. i just wiped an
entire slashdot post and a bunch of other things; grr!!

any chance of "close others" being moved to the very bottom of the list so this
doesnt happen by accident? i swear i do this at least once a day...

Comment 9

[Alexander Dietrich]

Wow, there seem to be a lot of people with no aiming or reading skills. (Just
kidding !!!)

I created a little extension that brings back "Close Other Tabs" (and nothing
else), you can find it here: http://dietrich.cx/devel/firebird/

Comment 10

[Tom Sommer]

I can't find any place this feature is located in Firebird, I thought it was
moved to File->Close other tabs

Not even a shortcut exists

Comment 11

[Eoghan Murray]

The wording of 'close other tabs' is confusing, as a new user I tried it to see
what it did, and lost a whole load of stuff. 

I would question the existence of this option, but would advocate that it be
changed from 'close other tabs' to 'close all other tabs' as this might clarify
it's function.

Comment 12

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 215102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[David Hyatt]

--> me

Comment 14

[David Hyatt]

This is back.  Marking fixed.  Yes, it's next to the Close Tab menu item.  Don't miss. ;)

Comment 15

[Tom Sommer]

It's been gone for so long, now I'm starting to click the wrong option when I
close a tab... Maybe we should switch the places of "Close Tab" and "Close other
tabs"?

Comment 16

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Verified fixed with 20030805 build.